“Rules are for children. This is war, and in war the only crime is to lose.”
-Joe Abercrombie, "Last Argument of Kings"

" We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training. "
- Archilochus (Greek poet 680-645 B.C)

" Sweat saves blood , blood saves lives, but brains saves both. "
- Erwin Rommel (German Feldmarschal 1891-1944)

"There are no desperate situations, there are only desperate people."
- Heinz Guderian (German general and theoretician 1888-1954)

" Justice is the first virtue of those who command, and stops the complaints of those who obey. "
- Denis Diderot (French philosopher, art critic, and writer 1713-1784)

" It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience. "
- Immanuel Kant (German philosopher 1724-1804)

" It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere. "
- Voltaire (French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher 1694-1778)

" Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you. "
- Friedrich Nietzsche (German philosopher, cultural critic, poet 1844-1900)

" Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. "
- Douglas MacArthur (American general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army 1880-1964)

"Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear."
- Bernard "Spartan General" Montgomery (Senior officer of the British Army 1887-1976)

" The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. "
- Sun Tzu (Chinese general, military strategist, and philosopher 544-496 B.C)

" Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood. "
- George S. Patton (Senior officer of the United States Army 1885-1945)

" The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. "
- Lev Tolstoy (Russian writer 1828-1910)

" There is scarcely any passion without struggle. "
- Albert Camus "Myth of Sisyphus" (French Algerian philosopher, author, and journalist 1913-1960)

" Life has no meaning a priori… It is up to you to give it a meaning, and value is nothing but the meaning that you choose. "
- Jean-Paul Sartre (French philosopher 1905-1980)

" It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise.”
- Fyodor Dostoyevsky "The Idiot" (Russian novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist and philosopher 1821-1881)

" Light does not come from Light , but from Darkness"
- Mircea Eliade ( Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher 1907-1986)

" Create like a God , command like a King, work like a Slave."
- Constantin Brancusi (Romanian sculptor, painter and photographer 1876-1957)