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Never Interrupt Your Enemy When He Is Making A Mistake.

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Every Private In The French Army Carries A Field Marshall Wand In His Knapsack.

If The Earth Were A Single State, Istanbul Would Be Its Capital.

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

The Greatest Danger Occurs At The Moment Of Victory

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.

A Man Cannot Become An Atheist Merely By Wishing It.

Show Me A Family Of Readers, And I Will Show You The People Who Move The World.

Wine Is Inspiring And Adds Greatly To The Joy Of Living.

The Gospel Is Not A Book; It Is A Living Being, With An Action, A Power, Which Invades Every Thing That Opposes Its Extension, Behold! It Is Upon This Table: This Book, Surpassing All Others. I Never Omit To Read It, And Every Day With Some Pleasure.

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

History Is A Set Of Lies Agreed Upon.

Nothing Makes The Future Look So Rosy As To Contemplate It Through A Glass Of Chambertin.

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

Passions Change, Politics Are Immutable.

The Only Victories Which Leave No Regret Are Those Which Are Gained Over Ignorance.

For The Stability Of The Government, The People Should Have A Considerable Voice In The Elections.

The Superior Man Is Never In Anyone's Way.

It Is The Business Of Cavalry To Follow Up The Victory, And To Prevent The Beaten Army From Rallying.

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

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.

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

Whatever May Be The Position In Life Of A Parent, It Is His Duty To Share His Crust With His Children. If You Want A Thing Done Well, Do It Yourself.

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

After Making A Mistake Or Suffering A Misfortune, The Man Of Genius Always Gets Back On His Feet.

France Needs Nothing So Much To Promote Her Regeneration As Good Mothers.

Obedience To Public Authority Ought Not To Be Based Either On Ignorance Or Stupidity.

Flatterers And Men Of Learning Do Not Accord Well With Each Other.

Artillery Is More Essential To Cavalry Than To Infantry, Because Cavalry Has No Fire For Its Defence, But Depends On The Sabre.

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

Time Is The Great Art Of Man.

Brave Deeds Are The Monuments Of Brave Men.

A Commander In Chief Ought To Say To Himself Several Times A Day: If The Enemy Should Appear On My Front, On My Right, On My Left, What Would I Do? And If The Question Finds Him Uncertain, He Is Not Well Placed, He Is Not As He Should Be, And He Should Remedy It.

Patriotism Is A Word Which Represents A Noble Idea.

We Frustrate Many Designs Against Us By Pretending Not To See Them.

Better To Have A Known Enemy Than A Forced Ally.

Wherever Flowers Cannot Be Reared, There Man Cannot Live.

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

The Confidence With Which A Sovereign Is Invested, Is Solid Only When It Is Sanctioned By The Suffrages Of The People, Who Clothed Him With The Supreme Magistracy.

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

Good And Decent People Must Be Protected And Persuaded By Gentle Means, But The Rabble Must Be Led By Terror.

When I Give A Minister An Order, I Leave It To Him To Find The Means To Carry It Out.

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

Men Will Risk Their Lives, Even Die For Ribbons.

How Many Things Apparently Impossible Have Nevertheless Been Performed By Resolute Men Who Had No Alternative But Death.

I Love A Brave Soldier Who Has Undergone The Baptism Of Fire.

I Shall Be An Attila To Venice.

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

Once You Have Made Up Your Mind, Stick To It; There Is No Longer Any 'if' Or 'but'.

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.

When Monarchs Abuse The Rights With Which They Have Been Invested By The Confidence Of The People, And Bring Down Upon Their Heads The Calamity Of War, The People Have The Right To Withdraw Their Allegiance.

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

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

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

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

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.

Whatever You Ardently And Passionately Desire, That You Obtain.

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.

I Would Rather Suffer With Coffee Than Be Senseless.

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

The Affairs Of War, Like The Destiny Of Battles, As Well As Empires, Hang Upon A Spiders Thread.

Battles Are Lost Or Won In 15 Minutes

The Basic Principle That We Must Follow In Directing The Armies Of The Republic Is This: That They Must Feed Themselves On War At The Expense Of The Enemy Territory.

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

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

I Feel Myself Driven Towards An End That I Do Not Know. As Soon As I Shall Have Reached It, As Soon As I Shall Become Unnecessary, An Atom Will Suffice To Shatter Me. Till Then, Not All The Forces Of Mankind Can Do Anything Against Me.

When You Set Out To Take Vienna, Take Vienna.

The Great Difficulty With Politics Is, That There Are No Established Principles.

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 Fear Three Newspapers More Than A Hundred Thousand Bayonets.

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

Ordinarily Men Exercise Their Memory Much More Than Their Judgment.

Tis A Principle Of War That When You Can Use The Lightning, 'tis Better Than Cannon.

When Firmness Is Sufficient, Rashness Is Unnecessary.

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

God! How Men Of Letters Are Stupid.

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

Who Saves His Country Violates No Law.

Whatever Shall We Do In That Remote Spot? Well, We Will Write Our Memoirs. Work Is The Scythe Of Time.

I Do Not Amuse Myself By Thinking Of Dead People.

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

Whatever Misanthropists May Say, Ingrates And The Perverse Are Exceptions In The Human Species.

The Worse The Troops The Greater The Need Of Artillery.

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.

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

A General-in-chief Should Ask Himself Several Times In The Day, What If The Enemy Were To Appear Now In My Front, Or On My Right, Or My Left?

Soldiers Win Battles And Generals Get The Medals.

It's Not The Size Of The Army But The Power Within The Army.

Ability Is Noting Without Opportunity.

It Must Be Recognized That The Real Truths Of History Are Hard To Discover. Happily, For The Most Part, They Are Rather Matters Of Curiosity Than Of Real Importance.

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

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Timid And Cowardly Soldiers Cause The Loss Of A Nation's Independence; But Pusillanimous Magistrates Destroy The Empire Of The Laws, The Rights Of The Throne, And Even Social Order Itself.

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.

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

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

A Beautiful Woman Like Eyes, And A Good Heart; One Is A Beautiful Thing, And Other Treasures.

Conquest Has Made Me What I Am, Only Conquest Can Maintain Me.

To Have A Right Estimate Of A Man's Character, We Must See Him In Misfortune.

If You (to General Bertrand) Do Not Perceive That Jesus Christ Is God, Very Well; Then I Did Wrong To Make You A General.

Power Is My Mistress. I Have Worked Too Hard At Her Conquest To Allow Anyone To Take Her Away From Me.

A Celebrated People Lose Dignity Upon A Closer View.

He Who Is Unmoved By Tears Has No Heart.

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

Men Grow Old Quickly On The Battlefield.

In Order To Govern, The Question Is Not To Follow Out A More Or Less Valid Theory But To Build With Whatever Materials Are At Hand. The Inevitable Must Be Accepted And Turned To Advantage.

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

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

High Politic Is Only Common Sense Applied To Great Things.

I Would Believe Any Religion That Could Prove It Had Existed Since The Beginning Of The World. But When I See Socrates, Plato, Moses, And Mohammed I Do Not Think There Is Such A One. All Religions Owe Their Origin To Man.

The Greater The Man, The Less Is He Opinionative, He Depends Upon Events And Circumstances.

An Order That Can Be Misunderstood, Will Be Misunderstood.

There Is No Class Of People So Hard To Manage In A State, As Those Whose Intentions Are Honest, But Whose Consciences Are Bewitched.

Across A Chasm Of Eighteen Hundred Years, Jesus Christ Makes A Demand Which Is Beyond All Others Difficult To Satisfy; He Asks For That Which A Philosopher May Often Seek In Vain At The Hands Of His Friends, Or A Father Of His Children, Or A Bride Of Her Spouse, Or A Man Of His Brother. He Asks For The Human Heart; He Will Have It Entirely To Himself. He Demands It Unconditionally; And Forthwith His Demand Is Granted. Wonderful!

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

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

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

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.

True Heroism Consists In Rising Superior To Misfortune.

Valor Is A Gift. Those Having It Never Know For Sure Whether They Have It Till The Test Comes. And Those Having It In One Test Never Know For Sure If They Will Have It When The Next Test Comes.

Over-preparation Is The Foe Of Inspiration.

The Infectiousness Of Crime Is Like That Of The Plague.

If You Want A Thing Done Well, Do It Yourself.

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

Courage Cannot Be Counterfeited. It Is One Virtue That Escapes Hypocrisy.

I May Be Accused Or Rashness, But Not Sluggishness.

Man Is Entitled By Birthright To A Share Of The Earth's Produce Sufficient To Fill The Needs Of His Existence.

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.

I Believe Love To Be Hurtful To Society, And To The Individual Happiness Of Men. I Believe, In Short, That Love Does More Harm Than Good.

You May Ask Me For Anything You Like Except Time.

Since The Discovery Of Printing, Knowledge Has Been Called To Power, And Power Has Been Used To Make Knowledge A Slave.

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

Of All The Peoples Of Europe, Spaniards Disgust Me The Least.

In Revolution There Are Only Two Sorts Of Men, Those Who Cause Them And Those Who Profit By Them.

Here, Gentlemen, A Dog Teaches Us A Lesson In Humanity.

Chess Is Too Difficult To Be A Game And Not Serious Enough To Be A Science Or An Art.

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.

There Is No Place In A Fanatic's Head Where Reason Can Enter.

The Greatest Ornament Of An Illustrious Life Is Modesty And Humility, Which Go A Great Way In The Character Even Of The Most Exalted Princes.

Great Ambition Is The Passion Of A Great Character.

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

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.

One Must Indeed Be Ignorant Of The Methods Of Genius To Suppose That It Allows Itself To Be Cramped By Forms. Forms Are For Mediocrity, And It Is Fortunate That Mediocrity Can Act Only According To Routine. Ability Takes Its Flight Unhindered.

Let Her Sleep, For When She Wakes, She Will Shake The World.

Public Morals Are Natural Complement Of All Laws They Are By Themselves An Entire Code.

We Are Either Kings Or Pawns Of Men

All Great Events Hang By A Single Thread. The Clever Man Takes Advantage Of Everything, Neglects Nothing That May Give Him Some Added Opportunity; The Less Clever Man, By Neglecting One Thing, Sometimes Misses Everything.

You Can Not Lead A Battle If You Think You Look Silly On A Horse.

Men Who Have Changed The World Never Achieved Their Success By Winning The Chief Citizens To Their Side, But Always By Stirring The Masses.

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.

I Have Doubtless Erred More Or Less In Politics, But A Crime I Never Committed.

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

The First Method Is That Of A Schemer And Leads Only To Mediocre Results; The Other Method Is The Path Of Genius And Changes The Face Of The World.

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

Let France Have Good Mothers, And She Will Have Good Sons.

I Treat Policies Like War. I Hoodwink One Flank So As To Trounce The Other. In My Family We Kneel Only To God.

All Religions Have Been Made By Men.

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

Democracy May Become Frenzied, But It Has Feelings And Can Be Moved. As For Aristocracy, It Is Always Cold And Never Forgives.

Nothing Is More Difficult, And Therefore More Precious, Than To Be Able To Decide.

Four Hostile Newspapers Are More To Be Feared Than A Thousand Bayonets.

They Are The Carrion Birds Of Humanity...[speaking Of The Jews] Are A State Within A State. They Are Certainly Not Real Citizens...the Evils Of Jews Do Not Stem From Individuals But From The Fundamental Nature Of These People.

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

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.

Unity Of Command Is Essential To The Economy Of Time. Warfare In The Field Was Like A Siege: By Directing All One's Force To A Single Point A Breach Might Be Made, And The Equilibrium Of Opposition Destroyed.

When People Cease To Complain, They Cease To Think.

There Is Only One Favorable Moment In War; Talent Consists In Knowing How To Seize It.

War Is The Business Of Barbarians.

The Hand That Gives Is Among The Hand That Takes. Money Has No Fatherland, Financiers Are Without Patriotism And Without Decency, Their Sole Object Is Gain.

I Want The Whole Of Europe To Have One Currency; It Will Make Trading Much Easier.

If I Had To Choose A Religion, The Sun As The Universal Giver Of Life Would Be My God.

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.

Nothing Is More Destructive Than The Charge Of Artillery On A Crowd.

America Is A Fortunate Country. She Grows By The Follies Of Our European Nations.

History Is A Myth That Men Agree To Believe.

A Man Is Known By His Conduct To His Wife, To His Family, And To Those Under Him.

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

I Am Sometimes A Fox And Sometimes A Lion. The Whole Secret Of Government Lies In Knowing When To Be The One Or The Other.

Government Lies

The Logical End To Defensive Warfare Is Surrender.

Great Men Grow Tired Of Contentedness.

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.

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

In War The Simplest Manoeuvres Are The Best.

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

There Shall Be No Alps.

Victory Is Not Always Winning The Battle...but Rising Every Time You Fall.

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.

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

Leave The Artillerymen Alone, They Are An Obstinate Lot.

Great Men Are Meteors Designed To Burn So That Earth May Be Lighted.

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

Force Is The Law Of Animals, Men Are Ruled By Conviction.

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

Where Flowers Degenerate Man Cannot Live.

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