Manuel

“There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare.”
― Sun Tzu, The Art of War

“In reality they all lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.”
― Edith Wharton, The Age of Innocence

“The purpose of battle is to attain the greatest heights within your own limits.”
― Yukito Kishiro

“In the end what will happen will be what has happened whenever a civilization breaks up. The people who have brains and courage come through and the ones who haven't are winnowed out.”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind