Lazare Carnot Quotes

• In a free country there is much clamor, with little suffering; in a despotic state there is little complaint, with much grievance.

  Lazare Carnot

  Country, Suffering, Littles

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• La Orden General es siempre:
  ......Maniobrar en cuerpo y al ataque.
  ......Mantener una disciplina estricta pero no mezquina.
  ......Mantener a las tropas siempre listas.
  ......Emplear la máxima vigilancia en la ronda de centinelas.
  ......Utilizar la bayoneta en todas las ocasiones posibles.
  Y perseguir al enemigo sin piedad hasta destruirlo por completo.

  Lazare Carnot

  Military, Order, Discipline

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• When a body acts upon another one, it is always immediately or through some intermediate body; this intermediate body is in general what one calls a machine.

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  Science, Machines, Body

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• ... the sciences are like a beautiful river, of which the course is easy to follow, when it has acquired a certain regularity; but if one wants to go back to the source, one will find it nowhere, because it is everywhere; it is spread so much [as to be] over all the surface of the earth; it is the same if one wants to go back to the origin of the sciences, one will find only obscurity, vague ideas, vicious circles; and one loses oneself in the primitive ideas.

  Lazare Carnot

  Beautiful, Circles, Ideas

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