Boldness Becomes Rarer, The Higher The Rank.

Battles Decide Everything.

Knowledge Must Become Capability.

War Therefore Is An Act Of Violence To Compel Our Opponent To Fulfill Our Will.

Politics Is The Womb In Which War Develops - Where Its Outlines Already Exist In Their Hidden Rudimentary Form, Like The Characteristics Of Living Creatures In Their Embryos.

Two Qualities Are Indispensable: First, An Intellect That, Even In The Darkest Hour, Retains Some Glimmerings Of The Inner Light Which Leads To Truth; And Second, The Courage To Follow This Faint Light Wherever It May Lead.