War Is Merely A Continuation Of Politics.

Knowing Is Different From Doing And Therefore Theory Must Never Be Used As Norms For A Standard, But Merely As Aids To Judgment.

War Is Not An Exercise Of The Will Directed At An Inanimate Matter.

Strength Of Character Does Not Consist Solely In Having Powerful Feelings, But In Maintaining One's Balance In Spite Of Them.

In War, While Everything Is Simple, Even The Simplest Thing Is Difficult. Difficulties Accumulate And Produce Frictions Which No One Can Comprehend Who Has Not Seen War.

We Shall Not Enter Into Any Of The Abstruse Definitions Of War Used By Publicists. We Shall Keep To The Element Of The Thing Itself, To A Duel. War Is Nothing But A Duel On An Extensive Scale.