Tränenreiche Männer sind gut. Verlasse mich jeder, der trocknen Herzens, trockner Augen ist!
Bk. I, Ch. 18, R. J. Hollingdale, trans. (1971), p. 147
Elective Affinities (1809)
“He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
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