There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances. -Leon Trotsky

 

There are no absolute rules of conduct, either in peace or war. Everything depends on circumstances.


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Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

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Revolutions are always verbose.

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