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A People That Is Able To Say Everything, Becomes Able To Do Everything. The Crowd Which Follows Me With Admiration, Would Run With The Same Eagerness Were I Marching To The Guillotine.

In War It Is Not Men, But The Man Who Counts.

Equality Should Be The Chief Basis Of The Education Of Youth.

Charges Of Cavalry Are Equally Useful At The Beginning, The Middle And The End Of A Battle. They Should Be Made Always, If Possible, On The Flanks Of The Infantry, Especially When The Latter Is Engaged In Front.

I Am The Signet Which Marks The Page Where The Revolution Has Been Stopped; But When I Die It Will Turn The Page And Resume Its Course.

In A Conquered Country Benevolence Is Not Humanitarianism. It Is A General Political Axiom That A Conqueror Must Not Inspire A Good Opinion Of His Benevolence Until He Has Demonstrated That He Can Be Severe With Malefactors.

The Turks Can Be Killed, But They Can Never Be Conquered.

It Is Necessary For The Heart To Feel As For The Body To Be Fed.

We Should Wash Our Dirty Linen At Home.

Being In The Tuileries Is Not Everything: What Matters Is To Stay Here.

It Is In Times Of Difficulty That Great Nations Like Great Men Display The Whole Energy Of Their Character And Become An Object Of Admiration To Posterity.

I Drink Champagne When I Win, To Celebrate...and I Drink Champagne When I Lose, To Console Myself.

Soldiers Generally Win Battles; Generals Get Credit For Them.

The Bed Has Become A Place Of Luxury To Me! I Would Not Exchange It For All The Thrones In The World.

It Is Only By Prudence, Wisdom, And Dexterity That Great Ends Are Attained And Obstacles Overcome. Without These Qualities Nothing Succeeds.

Europe Is A Molehill. All Great Empires And Revolutions Have Been On The Orient; Six Hundred Millions Live There.

Cavalry Is Useful Before, During, And After The Battle.

Let The Path Be Open To Talent.

Rashness Succeeds Often, Still More Often Fails.

What A Beautiful Fix We Are In Now; Peace Has Been Declared.

To Be Believed Make The Truth Unbelievable.

Every French Soldier Carriers A Marshal's Baton In His Knapsack.

It Is With Artillery That War Is Made.

I May Have Had Many Projects, But I Never Was Free To Carry Out Any Of Them. It Did Me Little Good To Be Holding The Helm; No Matter How Strong My Hands, The Sudden And Numerous Waves Were Stronger Still, And I Was Wise Enough To Yield To Them Rather Than Resist Them Obstinately And Make The Ship Founder. Thus I Never Was Truly My Own Master But Was Always Ruled By Circumstances.

But It Is At Home And Not In Public That One Should Wash Ones Dirty Linen. [fr., Car C'est En Famille, Ce N'est Pas En Public, Qu'un Lave Son Linge Sale.]

It Is Not Necessary To Prohibit Or Encourage Oddities Of Conduct Which Are Not Harmful.

The People To Fear Are Not Those Who Disagree With You, But Those Who Disagree With You And Are Too Cowardly To Let You Know.

Never Interrupt Your Enemy When He Is Making A Mistake.

Funny Inspirational

Great Men Are Never Cruel Without Necessity.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, And I Have Founded Empires. But On What Did We Rest The Creations Of Our Genius? Upon Force. Jesus Christ Founded His Empire Upon Love; And At This Hour Millions Of Men Would Die For Him.

Inspirational Love

Battles Are Lost Or Won In 15 Minutes

When I Want Any, Good Head Work Done; I Always Choose A Man, If Possible With A Long Nose.

I Would Rather Have A General Who Was Lucky Than One Who Was Good.

Strong Coffee, Much Strong Coffee, Is What Awakens Me. Coffee Gives Me Warmth, Waking, An Unusual Force And A Pain That Is Not Without Very Great Pleasure.

Half Of The People In The World Are Below Average.

Do You Wish To Find Out The Really Sublime? Repeat The Lord's Prayer.

Paradise Is A Center Whither The Souls Of All Men Are Proceeding, Each Sect In Its Particular Road.

We Must Serve The People Worthily, And Not Occupy Ourselves In Trying To Please Them. The Best Way, To Gain Their Affections Is To Do Them Good.

I Hope Before Long To Press You In My Arms And Shall Shower On You A Million Burning Kisses As Under The Equator.

All Men Of Genius, And All Those Who Have Gained Rank In The Republic Of Letters, Are Brothers, Whatever May Be The Land Of Their Nativity.

Liberty And Equality Are Magical Words.

Liberty And Equality

I Generally Had To Give In.

So You Think The Police Foresees And Knows Everything. The Police Invents More Than It Discovers.

Who Saves His Country Violates No Law.

A King Is Sometimes Obliged To Commit Crimes; But They Are The Crimes Of His Position.

Without Cavalry, Battles Are Without Result.

Prussia Was Hatched From A Cannon-ball.

Unhappy The General Who Comes On The Field Of Battle With A System.

It Is Easy To Know When A Government Wishes For Peace By Observing The Character Of The Person Sent To Negotiate For It.

An Army Of Lions Commanded By A Deer Will Never Be An Army Of Lions.

The Barbarous Custom Of Having Men Beaten Who Are Suspected Of Having Important Secrets To Reveal Must Be Abolished. It Has Always Been Recognized That This Way Of Interrogating Men, By Putting Them To Torture, Produces Nothing Worthwhile.

It Is Neither Holy, Roman Or An Empire.

My Star Was Fading, I Felt The Reins Slipping Out Of My Grasp, And Could Do Nothing To Stop It.

It Requires More Courage To Suffer Than To Die.

War Must Be Made As Intense And Awful As Possible In Order To Make It Short, And Thus To Diminish Its Horrors.

In These Days The Invention Of Printing, And The Diffusion Of Knowledge, Render Historical Calumnies A Little Less Dangerous: Truth Will Always Prevail In The Long Run, But How Slow Its Progress!

I Can No Longer Obey; I Have Tasted Command, And I Cannot Give It Up.

A Man Like Me Troubles Himself Little About A Million Men.

There Is No Such Thing As Accident; It Is Fate Misnamed.

Better Live A King, Than A Prince.

Soldiers! Forty Centuries Behold You!

Has A Man The Right To Kill Himself? Yes, If His Death Harms No One And If Life Is An Evil To Him. When Is Life An Evil? When It Offers A Man Nothing But Suffering And Pain.

If You Want To Get On In This World Make Many Promises, But Don't Keep Them.

All The Scholastic Scaffolding Falls, As A Ruined Edifice, Before A Single Word: Faith.

To Command, You Must First Of All Speak To The Eyes.

Over-preparation Is The Foe Of Inspiration.

Two Armies Are Two Bodies Which Meet And Try To Frighten Each Other.

Democracy, If It Is Reasonable, Limits Itself To Giving Everyone An Equal Opportunity To Compete And To Obtain.

You Don't Reason With Intellectuals. You Shoot Them.

The Surest Way To Remain Poor Is To Be An Honest Man.

A Revolution Is An Idea Which Has Found Its Bayonets.

You Cannot Stop Me; I Spend Thirty Thousand Men A Month.

Riches Do Not Consist In The Possession Of Treasures, But In The Use Made Of Them.

Self Improvement

Moses Has Revealed The Existence Of God To His Nation. Jesus Christ To The Roman World, Muhammad To The Old Continent.

In War You See Your Own Troubles; Those Of The Enemy You Cannot See. You Must Show Confidence.

When Small Men Attempt Great Enterprises, They Always End By Reducing Them To The Level Of Their Mediocrity.

You Think You Are Too Intelligent To Believe In God. I Am Not Like You.

The Conscience Is The Sacred Haven Of The Liberty Of Man.

The True Wealth Of A State Consists In The Number Of Its Inhabitants, In Their Toil And Industry.

In War As In Love, To Bring Matters To A Close, You Must Get Close Together.

Pure Politics Is Merely The Calculus Of Combinations And Of Chances.

When You Have Resolved To Fight A Battle, Collect Your Whole Force. Dispense With Nothing. A Single Battalion Sometimes Decides The Day.

Religion Is, In Fact, The Dominion Of The Soul; It Is The Hope, The Anchor Of Safety, The Deliverance From Evil. What A Service Has Christianity Rendered To Humanity!

Ambition Never Is In A Greater Hurry That I; It Merely Keeps Pace With Circumstances And With My General Way Of Thinking.

Generals Who Save Troops For The Next Day Are Always Beaten.

We Should Always Go Before Our Enemies With Confidence, Otherwise Our Apparent Uneasiness Inspires Them With Greater Boldness.

Do You Know What Astonished Me The Most In This World? The Inability Of Force To Create Anything.

The Populace Judges Of The Power Of God By The Power Of The Priests.

One Bad General Is Worth Two Good Ones.

The Only Victory Over Love Is Flight.

Men Are More Easily Governed Through Their Vices Than Through Their Virtues.

Destiny Urges Me To A Goal Of Which I Am Ignorant. Until That Goal Is Attained I Am Invulnerable, Unassailable. When Destiny Has Accomplished Her Purpose In Me, A Fly May Suffice To Destroy Me.

Men Will Risk Their Lives, Even Die For Ribbons.

When People Cease To Complain, They Cease To Think.

No Amount Of Money Will Induce Someone To Lay Down Their Life, But They Will Gladly Do So For A Bit Of Yellow Ribbon.

In War One Must Lean On An Obstacle In Order To Overcome It.

The French Complain Of Everything, And Always.

A Man Who Has No Consideration For The Needs Of His Men Ought Never To Be Given Command.

The Art Of Government Is Not To Let Me Grow Stale.

When I Was Happy I Thought I Knew Men, But It Was Fated That I Should Know Them In Misfortune Only.

As To Moral Courage, I Have Very Rarely Met With The Two O'clock In The Morning Kind. I Mean Unprepared Courage, That Which Is Necessary On An Unexpected Occasion, And Which, In Spite Of The Most Unforeseen Events, Leaves Full Freedom Of Judgement And Decision.

Ability Is Of Little Account Without Opportunity. I Have Very Rarely Met With Two O'clock In The Morning Courage: I Mean Instantaneous Courage.

It Is Easier To Brave And Threaten, Than To Conquer An Enemy.

Variety Made The Revolution. Liberty Was Just A Pretext.

A Journalist Is A Grumbler, A Censurer, A Giver Of Advice, A Regent Of Sovereigns, A Tutor Of Nations. Four Hostile Newspapers Are More To Be Feared Than A Thousand Bayonets.

The English Have No Exaulted Sentiments. They Can All Be Bought.

If We Could Read The Past Histories Of All Our Enemies We Would Disregard All Hostility For Them.

Throw Off Your Worries When You Throw Off Your Clothes At Night.

In Statesmanship There Are Predicaments From Which It Is Impossible To Escape Without Some Wrongdoing.

The Mohammedan Religion Is The Finest Of All.

There Are In Europe Many Good Generals, But They See Too Many Things At Once. I See One Thing, Namely The Enemy's Main Body. I Try To Crush It, Confident That Secondary Matters Will Then Settle Themselves.

I Have Seen Only You, I Have Admired Only You, I Desire Only You

An Army Marches On Its Stomach.

Alexander, Charlemagne And Myself All Tried To Found An Empire On Force And We Failed. Jesus Christ Is Building An Empire On Love, And Today There Are Millions Of People Who Would Gladly Die For His Sake.

I Saw The Crown Of France Laying On The Ground, So I Picked It Up With My Sword.

An Order That Can Be Misunderstood, Will Be Misunderstood.

I Am The Successor, Not Of Louis Xvi, But Of Charlemagne.

There Are Only Two Forces That Unite Men - Fear And Interest. All Great Revolutions Originate In Fear, For The Play Of Interests Does Not Lead To Accomplishment.

In War, Moral Factors Acount For Three Quarters Of The Whole; Relative Material Strength Accounts For Only One Quarter.

I Cannot Believe There Is A God Who Punishes And Rewards, For I See Honest Folk Unlucky, And Rogues Unlucky.

Mankind Are In The End Always Governed By Superiority Of Intellectual Faculties, And None Are More Sensible Of This Than The Military Profession. When, On My Return From Italy, I Assumed The Dress Of The Institute, And Associated With Men Of Science, I Knew What I Was Doing: I Was Sure Of Not Being Misunderstood By The Lowest Drummer Boy In The Army.

A Celebrated People Lose Dignity Upon A Closer View.

Men Take Only Their Needs Into Consideration - Never Their Abilities.

Posterity Will Talk Of Washington As The Founder Of A Great Empire, When My Name Shall Be Lost In The Vortex Of Revolution.

You Don't Govern Men Who Don't Have Religion, You Shoot Them.

Medicine Is A Collection Of Uncertain Prescriptions, The Results Of Which, Taken Collectively, Are More Fatal Than Useful To Mankind.

A Great European Federative System Alone Can Be Favourable To The Development Of Civilisation.

The Admiral Needs Only One Science, That Of Navigation. The General Needs All The Sciences.

Surely In A Matter Of This Kind We Should Endeavor To Do Something, That We May Say That We Have Not Lived In Vain, That We May Leave Some Impress Of Ourselves On The Sands Of Time.

Unite For The Public Safety, If You Would Remain An Independent Nation.

In A Battle, As In A Siege, The Art Consists In Concentrating Very Heavy Fire On A Particular Point. The Line Of Battle Once Established, The One Who Has The Ability To Concentrate An Unlooked For Mass Of Artillery Suddenly And Unexpectedly On One Of These Points Is Sure To Carry The Day.

A Book In Which There Were No Lies Would Be A Curiosity.

The First Quality Of A Soldier Is Constancy In Enduring Fatigue And Hardship. Courage Is Only The Second. Poverty Privation And Want Are The School Of The Good Soldier.

It Would Be A Joke If The Conduct Of The Victor Had To Be Justified To The Vanquished.

Religion Is Excellent Stuff For Keeping Common People Quiet.

Prison, Blood, Death, Create Enthusiasts And Martyrs, And Bring Forth Courage And Desperate Resolution.

In Political Administration, No Problem Is Ever Simple. It Can Never Be Reduced To The Question Whether A Certain Measure Is Good Or Not.

In Matters Of Government, Justice Means Force As Well As Virtue.

He, Who Practices Right, But In The Hope Of Acquiring Great Renown, Is Very Near To Vice.

The Merit Of Mahomet Is That He Founded A Religion Without An Inferno.

The Most Insupportable Of Tyrannies Is That Of Inferiors.

Called To The Throne By The Voice Of The People, My Maxim Has Always Been: A Career Open To Talent Without Distinction Of Birth. It Is This System Of Equality For Which The European Oligarchy Detests Me

Never Ascribe To Malice That Which Is Adequately Explained By Stupidity.

Life Is Strewn With So Many Dangers, And Can Be The Source Of So Many Misfortunes, That Death Is Not The Greatest Of Them.

God Has Decreed That There Be Sick And Poor In This World, But In The Next It Will Be The Other Way Around.

The Practice Of Law Sharpens The Mind By Making It Narrow.

It Is An Approved Maxim In War, Never To Do What The Enemy Wishes You To Do, For This Reason Alone, That He Desires It.

The Allied Powers Having Proclaimed That The Emperor Napoleon Is The Sole Obstacle To The Re-establishment Of Peace In Europe, He, Faithful To His Oath, Declares That He Is Ready To Descend From The Throne, To Quit France, And Even To Relinquish Life, For The Good Of His Country.

Time Is The Great Art Of Man.

Put Your Iron Hand In A Velvet Glove.

Revolutions Are Like The Most Noxious Dungheaps, Which Bring Into Life The Noblest Vegetables.

A New-born Government Must Shine And Astonish - The Moment It Loses Its éclat It Falls.

A Man Is Not Dependent Upon His Fellow Creature, When He Does Not Fear Death.

I Have Fought Sixty Battles, And I Have Learnt Nothing Which I Did Not Know At The Beginning.

Oh Well, No Matter What Happens, There's Always Death.

An Army Which Cannot Be Reenforced Is Already Defeated.

A Leader Has The Right To Be Beaten, But Never The Right To Be Surprised.

In Our Time No One Has The Conception Of What Is Great. It Is Up To Me To Show Them.

Age, Habits Of Business And Experience Have Modified Many Characters.

God! How Men Of Letters Are Stupid.

A Great Reputation Is A Great Noise, The More There Is Of It, And The Further Does It Swell. Land, Monuments, Nations, All Fall, But The Noise Remains, And Will Reach To Other Generations.

The Contagion Of Crime Is Like That Of The Plague. Criminals Collected Together Corrupt Each Other. They Are Worse Than Ever When, At The Termination Of Their Punishment, They Return To Society.

A Soul You Say? Give My Pocketwatch To A Savage And He'll Think It Has A Soul.

The Secret Of Great Battles Consists In Knowing How To Deploy And Concentrate At The Right Time.

All Systems Of Morality Are Fine. The Gospel Alone Has Exhibited A Complete Assemblage Of The Principles Of Morality, Divested Of All Absurdity. It Is Not Composed, Like Your Creed, Of A Few Common-place Sentences Put Into Bad Verse. Do You Wish To See That Which Is Really Sublime? Repeat The Lord's Prayer.

The Bullet That Will Kill Me Is Not Yet Cast.

I May Lose A Battle But I Will Never Lose A Minute.

The Reason Most People Fail Instead Of Succeed Is They Trade What They Want Most For What They Want At The Moment.

The Best Way To Make Every One Poor Is To Insist On Equality Of Wealth.

A Legislator Must Know How To Take Advantage Of Even The Defects Of Those He Wants To Govern. The Art Consists In Making Others Work Rather Than In Wearing Oneself Out.

I See Only My Objective - The Obstacles Must Give Way.

Ordinary Men Died, Men Of Iron Were Taken Prisoner: I Only Brought Back With Me Men Of Bronze.

Washington Is Dead! This Great Man Fought Against Tyranny; He Established The Liberty Of His Country. His Memory Will Always Be Dear To The French People, As It Will Be To All Free Men Of The Two Worlds; And Especially To French Soldiers, Who, Like Him And The American Soldiers, Have Combated For Liberty And Equality.

A Constitution Should Be Framed So As Not To Impede The Action Of Government, Nor Force The Government To Its Violation.

Nothing Is So Important In War As An Undivided Command.

Audacity Succeeds As Often As It Fails; In Life It Has An Even Chance.

A Great People May Be Killed, But They Cannot Be Intimidated.

From First To Last, Jesus Is The Same; Always The Same--majestic And Simple, Infinitely Severe And Infinitely Gentle.

In The Last Analysis, One Must Be A Military Man In Order To Govern. It Is Only With Boot And Spurs That One Can Govern A Horse.

Diplomacy Is The Police In Grand Costume.

History Is A Set Of Lies Agreed Upon.

I May Have Had Many Projects, But I Never Was Free To Carry Out Any Of Them.

The Most Dangerous Moment Comes With Victory.

Greatest Victory

He Who Knows How To Flatter Also Knows How To Slander.

Give Me A Turkish Army. I Will Conquer World.

Courage Isn't Having The Strength To Go On - It Is Going On When You Don't Have Strength.

For My Part, It Is Not The Mystery Of The Incarnation Which I Discover In Religion, But The Mystery Of Social Order, Which Associates With Heaven That Idea Of Equality Which Prevents The Rich From Destroying The Poor

Those Who Failed To Oppose Me, Who Readily Agreed With Me, Accepted All My Views, And Yielded Easily To My Opinions, Were Those Who Did Me The Most Injury, And Were My Worst Enemies, Because, By Surrendering To Me So Easily, They Encouraged Me To Go Too Far... I Was Then Too Powerful For Any Man, Except Myself, To Injure Me.

Among So Many Conflicting Ideas And So Many Different Perspectives, The Honest Man Is Confused And Distressed And The Skeptic Becomes Wicked ... Since One Must Take Sides, One Might As Well Choose The Side That Is Victorious, The Side Which Devastates, Loots, And Burns. Considering The Alternative, It Is Better To Eat Than To Be Eaten.

It Is Cowardice To Commit Suicide.

A Man's Palate Can, In Time, Become Accustomed To Anything.

I Do Not Believe It Is In Our Nature To Love Impartially. We Deceive Ourselves When We Think We Can Love Two Beings, Even Our Own Children, Equally. There Is Always A Dominant Affection.

How Many Seemingly Impossible Things Have Been Accomplished By Resolute Men Because They Had To Do, Or Die?

Impossible Things

Impatience Is A Great Obstacle To Success; He Who Treats Everything With Brusqueness Gathers Nothing, Or Only Immature Fruit Which Will Never Ripen.

There Is One Kind Of Robber Whom The Law Does Not Strike At, And Who Steals What Is Most Precious To Men: Time.

The Laws Of Circumstance Are Abolished By New Circumstances.

Leaders Have To Be Dealers In Hope.

An Army's Effectiveness Depends On Its Size, Training, Experience, And Morale, And Morale Is Worth More Than Any Of The Other Factors Combined.

A Woman Laughing Is A Woman Conquered.

Parties Weaken Themselves By Their Fear Of Capable Men.

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