Samuel Butler: In all the trade of war, no feat Is nobler than a brave retreat.

In all the trade of war, no feat Is nobler than a brave retreat. — Samuel Butler

In all the trade of war, no feat Is nobler than a brave retreat.

Samuel Butler

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Nimirum hic ego sum. — Here indeed I am; this is my position. Horace

Cineri gloria sera venit . (Also given as Cineri gloria sera sunt and Cineri glo — To the ashes of the dead

Ultima ratio regum. — Last argument of kings.

Armies are necessary, before all things, for the defense of governments from the — Leo Tolstoy

Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the hea — Voltaire

Life is only error, And death is knowledge. — Friedrich Schiller

The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact — Oscar Wilde

The soul active sees absolute truth; and utters truth, or creates. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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