[On War by Carl von Clausewitz]@TWC D-Link bookOn War CHAPTER II 13/31
They will also find room here frequently enough.
Certainly we may say that many a petty action of the passions is silenced in this serious business of life; but that holds good only in respect to those acting in a lower sphere, who, hurried on from one state of danger and exertion to another, lose sight of the rest of the things of life, BECOME UNUSED TO DECEIT, because it is of no avail with death, and so attain to that soldierly simplicity of character which has always been the best representative of the military profession.
In higher regions it is otherwise, for the higher a man's rank, the more he must look around him; then arise interests on every side, and a manifold activity of the passions of good and bad.
Envy and generosity, pride and humility, fierceness and tenderness, all may appear as active powers in this great drama. 21.
PECULIARITY OF MIND. The peculiar characteristics of mind in the chief actor have, as well as those of the feelings, a high importance.
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