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All the horrors of the reign of terror were based on concern for public tranquility.

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War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war. Our attitude towards the fearful nec...more

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They meet, as we shall meet tomorrow, to murder one another; they kill and maim tens of thousands, and then have thanksgiving services for having kill...more

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He was in a fairy kingdom where everything was possible.He looked up at the sky. And the sky was a fairy realm like the earth. It was clearing, and ov...more

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And once he had seen this, he could never again see it otherwise, just as we cannot reconstruct an illusion once it has been explained.

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To destroy the life that dwells in othersis beyond your power. The life of those you have slainhas vanished from your eyes, but is not destroyed. Yout...more

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They were dealt with as in war, and they naturally employed the means that were used against them.

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...And there really are men who believe in this, who spend their time in promoting Leagues of Peace, in delivering addresses, and in writing books; an...more

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Can it be that there is not enough space for man in this beautiful world, under those immeasurable, starry heavens? Is it possible that man's heart ca...more

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Davout looked up and gazed intently at him. For some seconds they looked at one another, and that look saved Pierre. Apart from conditions of war and ...more

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Millions of men, renouncing their human feelings and reason, had to go from west to east to slay their fellows, just as some centuries previously hord...more

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He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible.

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A battle is won by the side that is absolutely determined to win. Why did we lose the battle of Austerlitz? Our casualties were about the same as thos...more

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To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or b...more

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Her maternal instinct told her Natasha had too much of something, and because of this she would not be happy