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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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If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace.

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In my considered opinion, salary is payment for goods delivered and it must conform to the law of supply and demand. If, therefore, the fixed salary i...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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It was necessary that millions of men in whose hands lay the real power -- the soldiers who fired, or transported provisions and guns -- should consen...more

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Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult.

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

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Life meanwhile, the actual life of men with their real interests of health and sickness, labour and rest, with their interests of thought, science, po...more