Maurice de Saxe Quotes

• Altogether, Cavalry operations are exceedingly difficult, knowledge of the country is absolutely necessary, and ability to comprehend the situation at a glance, and an audacious spirit, are everything.

  Maurice de Saxe

  Country, Spirit, Operations

  Maurice de Saxe (2012). “Reveries on the Art of War”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• It is not big armies that win battles, it is the good ones.

  Maurice de Saxe

  Military, Army, Winning

  Maurice de Saxe (2012). “Reveries on the Art of War”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• Hope encourages men to endure and attempt everything; in depriving them of it, or in making it too distant, you deprive them of their very soul.

  Maurice de Saxe

  Military, Men, Soul

  Maurice de Saxe (2012). “Reveries on the Art of War”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• We (soldiers) are like cloaks,-one thinks of us only when it rains.

  Maurice de Saxe

  Rain, Thinking, Soldier

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• Every unit that is not supported is a defeated unit.

  Maurice de Saxe

  Defeated, Units

  Maurice de Saxe (2012). “Reveries on the Art of War”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• Everyone has seen people dancing all night. But take a man and make him dance for a quarter of an hour without music and see if he can bear it.

  Maurice de Saxe

  Dance, Night, Men

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