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I Know Men, And I Tell You, Jesus Is More Than A Man. Comparison Is Impossible Between Him And Any Other Human Being Who Ever Lived, Because He Was The Son Of God.

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I Know Men, And I Tell You, Jesus Is More Than A Man. Comparison Is Impossible Between Him And Any Other Human Being Who Ever Lived, Because He Was The Son Of God.

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Put A Rogue In The Limelight And He Will Act Like An Honest Man.

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The Most Terrible Of All My Battles Was The One Before Moscow. The French Showed Themselves To Be Worthy Of Victory, But The Russians Showed Themselves Worthy Of Being Invincible.

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.

My Mind Is A Chest Of Drawers. When I Wish To Deal With A Subject, I Shut All The Drawers But The One In Which The Subject Is To Be Found. When I Am Wearied, I Shut All The Drawers And Go To Sleep.

Sometimes A Single Battle Decides Everything And Sometimes, Too, The Slightest Circumstance Decides The Issue Of A Battle. There Is A Moment In Every Battle At Which The Least Manoeuvre Is Decisive And Gives Superiority, As One Drop Of Water Causes Overflow.

Strategy Is The Art Of Making Use Of Time And Space. I Am Less Concerned About The Later Than The Former. Space We Can Recover, Lost Time Never.

Lies Circle The Earth While Truth Is Still Trying To Put On Its Shoes.

Soldiers! Here Is The Battle You Have So Long Desired! Henceforth Victory Depends On You; We Have Need Of It.

Time Is The Great Art Of Man.

Men Are Lead By Trifles.

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

Character Is Victory Organized.

Victory And Disaster Establish Indestructible Bonds Between Armies And Their Commanders.

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.

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The Only True Conquests-those That Awaken No Regrets- Are Those Obtained Over Our Ignorance.

When You Determine To Risk A Battle, Reserve To Yourself Every Possible Chance Of Success, More Particularly If You Have To Deal With An Adversary Of Superior Talent, For If You Are Beaten, Even In The Midst Of Your Magazines And Your Communications, Woe To The Vanquished!

The People Excited By Ambitious Demagogues, Sooner Or Later Return Into The Hands Of The Aristocracy.

In Order That A People May Be Free, It Is Necessary That The Governed Be Sages, And Those Who Govern, Gods.

You Do Not Get Peace By Shouting: Peace. Peace Is A Meaningless Word; What We Need Is A Glorious Peace.

God Is On The Side Of The Heaviest Cannon.

Wherever Wood Can Swim, There I Am Sure To Find This Flag Of England.

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.

After Me, The Revolution - Or, Rather The Ideas Which Formed It - Will Resume Their Course. It Will Be Like A Book From Which The Marker Is Removed, And One Starts To Read Again At The Page Where One Left Off.

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Great Men Grow Tired Of Contentedness.

To Live, Is To Suffer; And The Honest Man Is Always Fighting To Be Master Of His Own Mind.

There Is A Joy In Danger.

There Is No Real Force Without Justice.

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.

Put Your Iron Hand In A Velvet Glove.

A Battle Sometimes Decides Everything; And Sometimes The Most Trifling Thing Decides The Fate Of A Battle.

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.

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

One Can Lead A Nation Only By Helping It See A Bright Outlook. A Leader Is A Dealer In Hope.

A Commander-in-chief Cannot Take As An Excuse For His Mistakes In Warfare An Order Given By His Sovereign Or His Minister When The Person Giving The Order Is Absent From The Field Of Operations And Is Imperfectly Aware Or Wholly Unaware Of The Latest State Of Affairs. It Follows That Any Commander-in-chief Who Undertakes To Carry Out A Plan Which He Considers Defective Is At Fault; He Must Put Forward His Reasons, Insist On The Plan Being Changed, And Finally Tender His Resignation Rather Than Be The Instrument Of His Army's Downfall.

A Faithful Friend Is The True Image Of The Deity.

Much Shedding Of Blood, Many Great Actions, And Triumphs, Toil And Perseverance Are The End Of All Things Human.

Good Intelligence Is Nine-tenths Of Any Battle.

God! How Men Of Letters Are Stupid.

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

Friendship Is But A Name. I Love No One.

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Orders And Decorations Are Necessary In Order To Dazzle The People.

Not One Cent Should Be Raised Unless It Is In Accord With The Law.

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Lack Is More In Means, Than In Principles.

Friends Must Always Be Treated As If One Day They Might Be Enemies.

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Men Grow Old Quickly On The Battlefield.

Adversity Is The Midwife Of Genius

A Prince Should Suspect Everything.

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Muhammad Was A Prince; He Rallied His Compatriots Around Him. In A Few Years, The Muslims Conquered Half Of The World. They Plucked More Souls From False Gods, Knocked Down More Idols, Razed More Pagan Temples In Fifteen Years Than The Followers Of Moses And Jesus Did In Fifteen Centuries. Muhammad Was A Great Man. He Would Indeed Have Been A God, If The Revolution That He Had Performed Had Not Been Prepared By The Circumstances.

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

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Promptly Improve Your Accidents.

France Has More Need Of Me Than I Have Need Of France.

Great Ambition Is The Passion Of A Great Character. Those Endowed With It May Perform Very Good Or Very Bad Acts. All Depends On The Principles Which Direct Them.

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The Law, That Is What Makes Men Stay Honest.

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

A Man Occupied With Public Or Other Important Business Cannot, And Need Not, Attend To Spelling.

From Triumph To Downfall There Is But One Step. I Have Noted That, In The Most Momentous Occasions, Mere Nothings Have Always Decided The Outcome Of The Greatest Events.

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.

In War, Three-quarters Turns On Personal Character And Relations; The Balance Of Manpower And Materials Counts Only For The Remaining Quarter.

A Great Reserve And Severity Of Manners Are Necessary For The Command Of Those Who Are Older Than Ourselves.

Neglect Of Duty Does Not Cease, By Repetition, To Be Neglect Of Duty.

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

I Have So Often Been Mistaken That I No Longer Blush For It

Men Have Their Virtues And Their Vices, Their Heroisms And Their Perversities; Men Are Neither Wholly Good Nor Wholly Bad, But Possess And Practice All That There Is Of Good And Bad Here Below. Such Is The General Rule. Temperament, Education, The Accidents Of Life, Are Modifying Factors. Outside Of This, Everything Is Ordered Arrangement, Everything Is Chance. Such Has Been My Rule Of Expectation And It Has Usually Brought Me Success.

A Society Without Religion Is Like A Vessel Without Compass.

An Army Travels On Its Stomach. Soup Makes The Soldier.

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

We Often Get In Quicker By The Back Door Than By The Front.

The Bayonet Has Always Been The Weapon Of The Brave And The Chief Tool Of Victory

Soldiers! Forty Centuries Behold You!

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

Skepticism Is A Virtue In History As Well As In Philosophy.

Leave The Artillerymen Alone, They Are An Obstinate Lot.

It Is Not By Whining That One Carries Out The Job Of King.

He Who Fears Being Conquered Is Sure Of Defeat.

Man, Not Men, Is The Most Important Consideration.

Treaties Are Observed As Long As They Are In Harmony With Interests.

Morality For The Upper Classes, The Gallows For The Rabbles.

Machiavelli Is Right: One Always Must Live With One's Friends With The Idea That They May Turn Into One's Enemies. He Should Have Said, With Everyone.

Be Successful! I Judge Men Only By The Results Of Their Actions.

The Only Conquests That Are Permanent And Leave No Regrets Are Our Conquests Over Ourselves.

War Is Ninety Percent Information.

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.

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

In A Great Nation, The Majority Are Incapable Of Judging Wisely Of Things.

If The Art Of War Were Nothing But The Art Of Avoiding Risks, Glory Would Become The Prey Of Mediocre Minds.... I Have Made All The Calculations; Fate Will Do The Rest.

A Form Of Government That Is Not The Result Of A Long Sequence Of Shared Experiences, Efforts, And Endeavors Can Never Take Root.

This Soldier, I Realized, Must Have Had Friends At Home And In His Regiment; Yet He Lay There Deserted By All Except His Dog. I Looked On, Unmoved, At Battles Which Decided The Future Of Nations. Tearless, I Had Given Orders Which Brought Death To Thousands. Yet Here I Was Stirred, Profoundly Stirred, Stirred To Tears. And By What? By The Grief Of One Dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, On Finding A Dog Beside The Body Of His Dead Master, Licking His Face And Howling, On A Moonlit Field After A Battle. Napoleon Was Haunted By This Scene Until His Own Death.

Great Battles Are Won With Artillery.

A Man Made For Public Life And Authority Never Takes Account Of Personalities; He Only Takes Account Of Things, Of Their Weight And Their Conseqences.

The Allies We Gain By Victory Will Turn Against Us Upon The Bare Whisper Of Our Defeat.

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.

Religions Are All Founded On Miracles - On Things We Cannot Understand, Such As The Trinity. Jesus Calls Himself The Son Of God, And Yet Is Descended From David. I Prefer The Religion Of Mahomet - It Is Less Ridiculous Than Ours.

Sire, I Am My Own Rudolph Of Hapsburg.

It Is Exceptional And Difficult To Find In One Man All The Qualities Necessary For A Great General.

Prussia Was Hatched From A Cannon-ball.

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

Religion Is What Keeps The Poor From Murdering The Rich.

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

The Emperor Died Forsaken By All, On This Horrible Rock. (st. Helena) His Death Struggle Was Awful!

I Have Made All The Calculations; Fate Will Do The Rest.

I Am Conquered Less By Fortune Than By The Egotism And Ingratitude Of My Companions In Arms.

To Attach No Importance To Public Opinion, Is A Proof That You Do Not Merit Its Suffrage.

The Policies Of All Powers Are Inherent In Their Geography.

There Are Two Kinds Of Fidelity, That Of Dogs And That Of Cats; You, Gentleman, Have The Fidelity Of Cats Who Never Leave The House.

Few Really Believe. The Most Only Believe That They Believe Or Even Make Believe.

An Army Which Cannot Be Regularly Recruited Is A Doomed Army.

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.

To Understand The Man You Have To Know What Was Happening In The World When He Was Twenty.

Do You Know What Amazes Me More Than Anything Else? The Impotence Of Force To Organize Anything.

Remember, Gentlemen, What A Roman Emperor Said: The Corpse Of An Enemy Always Smells Sweet.

If It Had Not Been For The English I Should Have Been Emperor Of The East, But Wherever There Is Water To Float A Ship We Are Sure To Find Them In Our Way.

Rascality Has Limits; Stupidity Has Not.

The Implements To Him Who Can Handle Them.

In Politics Nothing Is Immutable. Events Carry Within Them An Invincible Power.

He Is Almost A Statesman. He Lies Well.

France Always Has Plenty Men Of Talent, But It Is Always Deficient In Men Of Action And High Character.

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?

Passions Change, Politics Are Immutable.

True Heroism Consists In Being Superior To The Ills Of Life, In Whatever Shape They May Challenge Us To Combat.

Battles Are Lost Or Won In 15 Minutes

My Enemies Make Appointments At My Tomb.

It Is The Success Which Makes Great Men.

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There Are Only Two Forces In The World, The Sword And The Spirit. In The Long Run The Sword Will Always Be Conquered By The Spirit.

You May Ask Me For Anything You Like Except Time.

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.

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

There Are Two Levers For Moving Men - Interest And Fear.

Liberty And Equality Are Magical Words.

Liberty And Equality

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.

Secrets Travel Fast In Paris.

Circumstances-what Are Circumstances? I Make Circumstances

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

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

Bloodletting Is Among The Ingredients Of Political Medicine.

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

The Bullet That Will Kill Me Is Not Yet Cast.

Rashness Succeeds Often, Still More Often Fails.

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

Half Of The People In The World Are Below Average.

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

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

The French Complain Of Everything, And Always.

History Is Written By The Winners.

In Politics Nothing Is Immutable. Events Carry Within Them An Invincible Power. The Unwise Destroy Themselves In Resistance. The Skillful Accept Events, Take Strong Hold Of Them And Direct Them.

Success Is The Most Convincing Talker In The World.

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