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"… Honour … remains awake in us like a last lamp in a temple that has been laid to waste."

— Alfred de Vigny Servitude et grandeur militaires (1835)

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History is a novel whose author is the people.

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Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind.

Clamour can be stifled, but how avenge oneself on silence?

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The soldier's lot is the most melancholy relic of barbarism (next to capital punishment) that lingers on among mankind.

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