![Let war be so carried on that no other object may seem to be sought but the acquisition of peace.
[Lat., Bellum autem ita suscipiatur, ut nihil aliud, nisi pax, quaesita videatur.]](/assets/img/quote-photos/let-war-be-so-carried-on-that-no-other-object-may-seem-to-be-sought-but-the-acqui.jpg)
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war ambition mean
For what are the triumphs of war, planned by ambition, executed by violence, and consummated by devastation? The means are the sacrifice of many, the end, the bloated aggrandizement of the few. Charles Caleb Colton
war winning games
War is a game in which princes seldom win, the people never.
war hands fog
Mystery magnifies danger, as a fog the sun, the hand that warned Belshazzar derived its horrifying effect from the want of a body.
war writing fighting
Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it.
war long body
Wars are to the body politic, what drams are to the individual. There are times when they may prevent a sudden death, but if frequently resorted to, or long persisted in, they heighten the energies only to hasten the dissolution.
war heart character
Why am I always at war with myself? Why have I told, as if upon compulsion, what I knew all along I ought to have withheld? Why am I making a friend of this woman beside me, in spite of the whispers against her that I hear in my heart? Charles Dickens
war believe blow
I believe that the heaviest blow ever dealt at liberty's head will be dealt by this nation in the ultimate failure of its example to the earth.
war believe writing
There's a long-standing (50 year old) flame war within the field over whether it's "sci-fi" or "SF".SF has traditionally been looked down on by the literary establishment because, to be honest, much early SF was execrably badly written - but these days the significance of the pigeon hole is fading; we have serious mainstream authors writing stuff that is I-can't-believe-it's-not-SF, and SF authors breaking into the mainstream. If you view them as tags that point to shelves in bricks-and-mortar bookshops, how long are these genre categories going to survive in the age of the internet? Charles Stross
war writing spy
I like lassic British spy thrillers. Seriously. If the cold war was still on, that's something I'd be writing.
may oppression begets
Death may beget life, but oppression can beget nothing other than itself.
may invention condensation
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
may maintaining conquer
Hannibal knew better how to conquer than how to profit by the conquest; and Napoleon was more skilful in taking positions than in maintaining them. As to reverses, no general cart presume to say that he may not be defeated; but he can, and ought to say, that he will not be surprised.
may riches talent
From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration.
may cups bliss
We may anticipate bliss, but who ever drank of that enchanted cup unalloved?
may venture able
As there are none so weak that we may venture to injure them with impunity, so there are none so low that they may not at some time be able to repay an obligation. Therefore, what benevolence would dictate, prudence would confirm.
may modern poet
Subtract from many modern poets all that may be found in Shakespeare, and trash will remain.
may finals tomorrow
To-morrow even may bring the final reckoning. Charles Spurgeon
may certain made
We may be certain that whatever God has made prominent in His Word, He intended to be conspicuous in our lives.
acquisition attention language
A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen. Anna Seward
acquisition satisfaction gains
Who does not feel that Nansen's account of his search for the Pole rather loses than gains in ideal satisfaction by the pretense of a few trifling acquisitions for science? Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
acquisition campaigns cost
At IMVU, the cost of customer acquisition through our five-dollar-a-day AdWords campaign was less than twenty-five cents. Our revenue from those same customers was more than a dollar. Eric Ries
acquisition acquaintance one-thing
The acquisition of will, for one thing exclusively, presupposes entire acquaintance with many others. Johann Kaspar Lavater
acquisition found
Happiness is not to be found in knowledge, but in the acquisition of knowledge Edgar Allan Poe
acquisition accommodations assimilation
Every acquisition of accommodation becomes material for assimilation, but assimilation always resists new accommodations. Jean Piaget
acquisition labor
But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest. Leo Tolstoy
acquisition allies compulsion
Nell was not one for friends and had never hidden her distaste for most other humans, their neurotic compulsion for the acquisition of allies. Kate Morton
acquisition harvest application
Application is the price to be paid for mental acquisition. To have the harvest, we must sow the seed. Philip James Bailey