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

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

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Between A Battle Lost And A Battle Won, The Distance Is Immense And There Stand Empires.

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It Is Neither Holy, Roman Or An Empire.

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I Love Power. But It Is As An Artist That I Love It. I Love It As A Musician Loves His Violin, To Draw Out Its Sounds And Chords And Harmonies.

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

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The Life Of A Citizen Is The Property Of His Country.

Each State Claims The Right To Control Interests Foreign To Itself When Those Interests Are Such That It Can Control Them Without Putting Its Own Interests In Danger. ... Other Powers Only Recognize This Right Of Intervening In Proportion As The Country Doing It Has The Power To Do It.

Every Means Should Be Taken To Attach The Soldier To His Colours.

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All The Women In The World Would Not Make Me Lose An Hour.

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

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Reprisals Are But A Sad Resource.

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

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One Must Learn To Forgive And Not To Hold A Hostile, Bitter Attitude Of Mind, Which Offends Those About Us And Prevents Us From Enjoying Ourselves. One Must Recognize Human Shortcomings And Adjust Himself To Them Rather Than To Be Constantly Finding Fault With Them.

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Never Interrupt Your Enemy When He Is Making A Mistake.

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Promptly Improve Your Accidents.

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When People Cease To Complain, They Cease To Think.

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A Starving Army Is Actually Worse Than None.

Sometimes A Great Example Is Necessary To All The Public Functionaries Of The State.

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

Good Infantry Is Without Doubt The Sinews Of An Army; But If It Has To Fight A Long Time Against Very Superior Artillery, It Will Become Demoralized And Will Be Destroyed.

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The Leader's Role Is To Define Reality, Then Give Hope

History Is The Invention Of Historians.

Malice Delights To Blacken The Characters Of Prominent Men.

My Generals Are A Parcel Of Post Inspectors.

Impossible Is A Word To Be Found Only In The Dictionary Of Fools.

A Throne Is Only A Bench Covered With Velvet.

Victory Belongs To The Most Persevering.

Ability Is Nothing Without Opportunity.

The Art Of War Is To Gain Time When Your Strength Is Inferior.

How Many Really Capable Men Are Children More Than Once During The Day!

Necessity Dominates Inclination, Will, And Right.

Better Live A King, Than A Prince.

Fanaticism Must Be Put To Sleep Before It Can Be Eradicated.

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

The Fool Has One Great Advantage Over A Man Of Sense; He Is Always Satisfied With Himself.

How Can You Have Order In A State Without Religion? For, When One Man Is Dying Of Hunger Near Another Who Is Ill Of Surfeit, He Cannot Resign Himself To This Difference Unless There Is An Authority Which Declares 'god Wills It Thus.' Religion Is Excellent Stuff For Keeping Common People Quiet.

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.

Our Credulity Is A Part Of The Imperfection Of Our Natures. It Is Inherent In Us To Desire To Generalize, When We Ought, On The Contrary, To Guard Ourselves Very Carefully From This Tendency.

My Downfall Raises Me To Infinite Heights.

To A Father Who Loves His Children Victor Has No Charms. When The Heart Speaks, Glory Itself Is An Illusion.

In A Narrow Sphere Great Men Are Blunderers.

Muhammad Was A Great Man, An Intrepid Soldier; With A Handful Of Men He Triumphed At The Battle Of Bender (sic); A Great Captain, Eloquent, A Great Man Of State, He Revived His Fatherland And Created A New People And A New Power In The Middle Of Arabia.

Incidents Should Not Govern Policy; But, Policy Incidents.

The Secret Of War Lies In The Communications.

As For Me, To Love You Alone, To Make You Happy, To Do Nothing Which Would Contradict Your Wishes, This Is My Destiny And The Meaning Of My Life.

The French Complain Of Everything, And Always.

Laws Which Are Consistent In Theory Often Prove Chaotic In Practice.

Give Me An Educated Mother, I Shall Promise You The Birth Of A Civilized, Educated Nation

Friendship Is But A Name. I Love No One.

In Politics, An Absurdity In Public Business Is Going Into It.

I Cannot Approve Of Your Method Of Operation, You Proceed Like A Bewildered Idiot, Taking Not The Least Notice Of My Orders.

Patriotism Is A Word Which Represents A Noble Idea.

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

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

Providence Is Always On The Side Of The Last Reserve.

I Pay Attention Only To What People Do Or Say. I Never Pay Attention To What They Think.

Space We Can Recover; Time Never.

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The Mohammedan Religion Is The Finest Of All.

All Becomes Easy When We Follow The Current Of Opinion; It Is The Ruler Of The World.

Governments Keep Their Promises Only When They Are Forced, Or When It Is To Their Advantage To Do So.

The Inevitable End Of Multiple Chiefs Is That They Fade And Disappear For Lack Of Unity.

Religion Is What Keeps The Poor From Murdering The Rich.

This Accession Of Territory Affirms Forever The Power Of The United States, And I Have Given England A Maritime Rival Who Sooner Or Later Will Humble Her Pride.

Man Will Believe Anything, As Long As It's Not In The Bible.

From The Heights Of These Pyramids, Forty Centuries Look Down On Us.

Never Awake Me When You Have Good News To Announce, Because With Good News Nothing Presses; But When You Have Bad News, Arouse Me Immediately, For Then There Is Not An Instant To Be Lost.

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

The Nature Of Christ Is, I Grant It, From One End To Another, A Web Of Mysteries; But This Mysteriousness Does Not Correspond To The Difficulties Which All Existence Contains. Let It Be Rejected, And The Whole World Is An Enigma; Let It Be Accepted, And We Possess A Wonderful Explanation Of The History Of Man.

Many A One Commits A Reprehensible Action, Who Is At Bottom An Honourable Man, Because Man Seldom Acts Upon Natural Impulse, But From Some Secret Passion Of The Moment Which Lies Hidden And Concealed Within The Narrowest Folds Of His Heart.

A Victorious General Must Know How To Employ Severity, Justness, And Mildness By Turns, If He Would Allay Sedition Or Prevent It.

It Is The Cause, Not The Death, That Makes The Martyr.

Men Of Genius Are Meteors Destined To Burn Themselves Out In Lighting Up Their Age.

Do Not Talk To Me Of Goodness, Of Abstract Justice, Of Nature Law. Necessity Is The Highest Law, Public Welfare Is The Highest Justice.

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

I Do Not Amuse Myself By Thinking Of Dead People.

The Spectacle Of A Field Of Battle After The Combat, Is Sufficient To Inspire Princes With The Love Of Peace, And The Horror Of War.

The Best Generals Are Those Who Have Served In The Artillery.

The Future Destiny Of A Child Is Always The Work Of The Mother

If I Had Not Been Defeated In Acre Against Jezzar Pasha Of Turk. I Would Conquer All Of The East.

Send Me 300 Francs; That Sum Will Enable Me To Go To Paris. There, At Least, One Can Cut A Figure And Surmount Obstacles. Everything Tells Me I Shall Succeed. Will You Prevent Me From Doing So For The Want Of 100 Crowns?

Vengeance Has No Foresight.

War Is The Business Of Barbarians.

History Paints The Human Heart.

If You Set Out To Take Vienna, Take Vienna.

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

The Most Constant, The Most Powerful, And The Most Generous Of All My Enemies.

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

The Best Cure For The Body Is A Quiet Mind.

The First Quality Of The Commander-in-chief Is A Cool Head To Receive A Correct Impression Of Things. He Should Not Allow Himself To Be Confused By Either Good Or Bad News.

What A Solace Christianity Must Be To One Who Has An Undoubted Conviction Of Its Truth!

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

The Fate Of War Is To Be Exalted In The Morning, And Low Enough At Night! There Is But One Step From Triumph To Ruin.

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

Every Hour Of Lost Time Is A Chance Of Future Misfortune.

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

Every Beggar Shall Be Arrested. But To Arrest A Beggar Merely In Order To Put Him In Jail Would Be Barbarous And Absurd. He Should Be Arrested For The Sole Purpose Of Teaching Him How To Earn A Living By His Work.

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

In Tragedy Great Men Are More Truly Great Than In History. We See Them Only In The Crises Which Unfold Them.

If I Were An Englishman, I Should Esteem The Man Who Advised A War With China To Be The Greatest Living Enemy Of My Country. You Would Be Beaten In The End, And Perhaps A Revolution In India Would Follow.

Until You Spread Your Wings, You'll Have No Idea How Far You Can Fly.

When Soldiers Have Been Baptized In The Fire Of A Battle-field, They Have All One Rank In My Eyes.

Conscription Is The Vitality Of A Nation, The Purification Of Its Morality, And The Real Foundations Of All Its Habits

We Are Nothing But By The Law.

Great Men Are Meteors, Consuming Themselves To Light The World

Give Me Enough Ribbons To Place On The Tunics Of My Soldiers And I Can Conquer The World.

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