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= Wize Wordz Being Quoted =
Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882
My policy is to have no policy.
Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865
More life may trickle out of men through thought than through a gaping wound.
Thomas Hardy, 1840-1928
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
Four brave men who do not know each other will not dare to attack a lion. Four less brave, but knowing each other well, sure of their reliability and consequently of mutual aid, will attack resolutely. There is the science of the organization of armies in a nutshell.
Colonel Charles Ardant du Picq (1821-70)
Death is nothing, but to live defeated is to die every day.
Napoleon Bonaparte, 1769-1821
For what the leaders are, that, as a rule, will the men below them be.
Xenophon (430?-355? B.C.)
While knowing that we will die someday, we think that all the others will die before us and that we will be the last to go. Death seems a long way off. Is this not shallow thinking? It is worthless and is only a joke within a dream... insofar as death is always at one's door, one should make sufficient effort and act quickly.
Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo (1659-1720)
When danger is greatest. - It is rare to break one's leg when in the course of life one is toiling upwards - it happens much more often when one starts to take things easy and to choose the easy paths.
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900
If you wish to be loved by your soldiers, husband their blood and do not lead them to slaughter.
Frederick the Great, 1712-86
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