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

To Imagine That It Is Possible To Perform Great Military Deeds Without Fighting Is Just Empty Dreams.

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

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

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Ten People Who Speak Make More Noise Than Ten Thousand Who Are Silent.

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Soldiers! Forty Centuries Behold You!

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The Man Fitted For Affairs And Authority Never Considers Individuals, But Things And Their Consequences.

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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.

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.

There Is No Such Thing As An Accident, Only A Failure To Recognise The Hand Of Fate

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I Make My Battle Plans From The Spirit Of My Sleeping Soldiers

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

If Obedience Is The Result Of The Instinct Of The Masses, Revolt Is The Result Of Their Thought.

In War, The Moral Is To The Physical As Three Is To One.

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

You Cannot Treat With All The World At Once.

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

History Is Written By The Winners.

We Should Wash Our Dirty Linen At Home.

Never Tell Your Enemy He Is Doing The Wrong Thing.

A Man Becomes The Creature Of His Uniform.

I Know He's A Good General, But Is He Lucky?

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.

I Engage And After That I See What To Do.

Nothing Is More Arrogant Than The Weakness Which Feels Itself Supported By Power.

True Heroism Consists In Rising Superior To Misfortune.

True Wisdom, In General, Consists In Energetic Determination.

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

Forethought We May Have, Undoubtedly, But Not Foresight.

A Leader Is A Dealer In Hope.

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

To Write History One Must Be More Than A Man, Since The Author Who Holds The Pen Of This Great Justiciary Must Be Free From All Preoccupation Of Interest Or Vanity.

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

Better To Have An Open Enemy, Than Hidden Friends.

History Is A Set Of Lies Agreed Upon.

Champagne! In Victory, One Deserves It; In Defeat One Needs It.

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

You Would Make A Ship Sail Against The Winds And Currents By Lighting A Bonfire Under Her Decks? I Have No Time For Such Nonsense.

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.

Put Your Iron Hand In A Velvet Glove.

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

Diplomacy Is The Police In Grand Costume.

War,--the Trade Of Barbarians!

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

There Must Be Religion. Otherwise The Poor Would Murder The Rich.

Mankind's Worst Enemy Is Fear Of Work

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

The Superior Man Is Never In Anyone's Way.

To Have Good Soldiers, A Nation Must Always Be At War.

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

Passionate People Invariably Deny Their Anger, And Cowards Often Boast Their Ignorance Of Fear.

My Success And Everything Good That I Have Done, I Owe To My Mother.

I Generally Had To Give In.

Men Are Never Attached To You By Favours.

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

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.

Brave Deeds Are The Monuments Of Brave Men.

It's The Unconquerable Soul Of Man, And Not The Nature Of The Weapon He Uses, That Ensures Victory

There Is A Joy In Danger.

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

Morality Has Nothing To Do With Such A Man As I Am.

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

Wherever Flowers Cannot Be Reared, There Man Cannot Live.

Ability Is Noting Without Opportunity.

The Great Art Of Governing Consists In Not Letting Men Grow Old In Their Jobs.

The Best Way To Keep One's Word Is Not To Give It.

Keeping Promises

War Is Ninety Percent Information.

A Cowardly Act! What Do I Care About That? You May Be Sure That I Should Never Fear To Commit One If It Were To My Advantage.

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.

All Religions Have Been Made By Men.

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.

My Decision To Destroy The Authority Of The Blacks In Saint Domingue (haiti) Is Not So Much Based On Considerations Of Commerce And Money, As On The Need To Block For Ever The March Of The Blacks In The World.

A Prince Should Suspect Everything.

The Process Of Quitting Smoking Doesn't End With The Last Cigarette. It's Not Quitting Itself, The Real Key Is Staying Quit

Anarchy Is The Stepping Stone To Absolute Power.

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.

Insubordination May Only Be The Evidence Of A Strong Mind.

When Your Enemy Is Doing Something Wrong, Do Not Interrupt Him.

When People Cease To Complain, They Cease To Think.

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

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

To Do All That One Is Able To Do, Is To Be A Man; To Do All That One Would Like To Do, Is To Be A God.

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.

Human Life Is The Only Thing That Takes Care Of Itself.

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

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

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

Our Hour Is Marked, And No One Can Claim A Moment Of Life Beyond What Fate Has Predestined.

Fools Have A Great Advantage Over The Wise; They Are Always Self-satisfied.

Men Are Lead By Trifles.

Agriculture Is The Soul And Chief Support Of Empires; Industry Produces Riches And The Happiness Of The People; Exportation Represents The Superabundance, And Good Use Of Both.

To Extraordinary Circumstance We Must Apply Extraordinary Remedies.

When You Have An Enemy In Your Power, Deprive Him Of The Means Of Ever Injuring You.

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