“The soldier's lot is the most melancholy relic of barbarism (next to capital punishment) that lingers on among mankind.”

—  Alfred De Vigny , book Servitude et grandeur militaires

L'existence du Soldat est (après la peine de mort) la trace la plus douloureuse de barbarie qui subsiste parmi les hommes.
Servitude et grandeur militaires; (ed.) Paul Viallaneix Oeuvres complètes, (1965) p. 358; translation from Humphrey Hare (trans.) The Military Necessity (1953) p. 17. (1835).

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