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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 Generally Had To Give In.

If You Wish To Be A Success In The World, Promise Everything, Deliver Nothing.

Broken Promises

Over-preparation Is The Foe Of Inspiration.

The Only One Who Is Wiser Than Anyone Is Everyone.

Variety Made The Revolution. Liberty Was Just A Pretext.

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

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

Liberty Is A Need Felt By A Small Class Of People Whom Nature Has Endowed With Nobler Minds Than The Mass Of Men;.... Consequently, It May Be Repressed With Impunity. Equality, On The Other Hand, Pleases The Masses.

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

You Can Do Anything With Bayonets Except Sit On Them

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

Where The Government Is Weak, Military Sway Prevails.

Give Me Enough Medals And I’ll Win You Any War

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

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.

The Unwilling Soldier Will Do Anything To Fight For A Useless Fabric Piece Of Ribbon.

You Must Not Fear Death, My Lads; Defy Him, And You Drive Him Into The Enemy's Ranks.

A Man Will Fight Harder For His Interests Than For His Rights. Men Are Moved By Only Two Mechanisms: Fear And Self-interest. Victory Belongs To The Most Persevering.

A Celebrated People Lose Dignity Upon A Closer View.

Men Are Never Attached To You By Favours.

As A Rule It Is Circumstances That Make Men.

I Hope The Time Is Not Far Off When I Shall Be Able To Unite All The Wise And Educated Men Of All The Countries And Establish A Uniform Regime Based On The Principles Of The Quran Which Alone Are True And Which Alone Can Lead Men To Happiness.

Promptly Improve Your Accidents.

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

Conquests Will Come And Go But Delambre's Work Will Endure.

Reconnaissance Memoranda Should Always Be Written In The Simplest Style And Be Purely Descriptive. They Should Never Stray From Their Objective By Introducing Extraneous Ideas.

True Character Stands The Test Of Emergencies. Do Not Be Mistaken, It Is Weakness From Which The Awakening Is Rude.

War Is A Lottery In Which Nations Ought To Risk Nothing But Small Amounts.

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

I Closed The Gulf Of Anarchy And Brought Order Out Of Chaos. I Rewarded Merit Regardless Of Birth Or Wealth, Wherever I Found It. I Abolished Feudalism And Restored Equality To All Regardless Of Religion And Before The Law. I Fought The Decrepit Monarchies Of The Old Regime Because The Alternative Was The Destruction Of All This. I Purified The Revolution.

From Triumph To Downfall Is But A Step. I Have Seen A Trifle Decide The Most Important Issues In The Gravest Affairs.

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

The Bible Is Not Merely A Book-it Is A Living Power. . . . Nowhere As In The Bible Can Be Found Such A Series Of Beautiful Ideas And Admirable Maxims Which Pose Before Us Like The Battalions Of A Celestial Army. . . . The Soul Can Never Go Astray While It Has This Book For Its Guide.

To Negotiate Is Not To Do As One Likes.

An Army Which Cannot Be Reenforced Is Already Defeated.

The True Policy Of Government Is To Make Use Of Aristocracy, But Under The Forms And In The Spirit Of Democracy.

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

The Heart May Be Broken, And The Soul Remain Unshaken.

Necessity Dominates Inclination, Will, And Right.

Rashness Succeeds Often, Still More Often Fails.

The Keys Of A Fortress Are Always Well Worth The Retirement Of The Garrison When It Is Resolved To Yield Only On Those Conditions. On This Principle It Is Always Wiser To Grant An Honorable Capitulation To A Garrison Which Has Made A Vigorous Resistance Than To Risk An Assault.

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.

We Are Made Weak Both By Idleness And Distrust Of Ourselves. Unfortunate, Indeed, Is He Who Suffers From Both. If He Is A Mere Individual He Becomes Nothing; If He Is A King He Is Lost.

The Nature Of Christ's Existence Is Mysterious, I Admit; But This Mystery Meets The Wants Of Man. Reject It, And The World Is An Inexplicable Riddle; Believe It, And The History Of Our Race Is Satisfactorily Explained.

Lack Is More In Means, Than In Principles.

Never Interrupt Your Enemy When He Is Making A Mistake.

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If Fifty Thousand Men Were To Die For The Good Of The State, I Certainly Would Weep For Them, But Political Necessity Comes Before Everything Else.

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

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

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

Never Interfere With An Enemy In The Process Of Destroying Himself.

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

In Time Of Revolution, With Perseverance And Courage, A Soldier Should Think Nothing Impossible.

Which Is Heavier: A Soldier's Pack Or A Slave's Chains?

Vengeance Is Without Foresight.

The Tools Belong To The Man Who Can Use Them.

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.

I Have Never Loved Anyone For Love's Sake Except, Perhaps, Josephine - A Little.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Policemen And Prisons Ought Never To Be The Means Used To Bring Men Back To The Practice Of Religion.

My Business Is To Succeed, And I’m Good At It. I Create My Iliad By My Actions, Create It Day By Day.

Public Opinion Is The Thermometer A Monarch Should Constantly Consult.

Wisdom And Policy Dictate That We Must Do As Destiny Demands And Keep Peace With The Irresistible March Of Events.

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

The Sovereignty Of The People Is Inalienable.

It Requires More Courage To Suffer Than To Die.

The Greatest Danger Occurs At The Moment Of Victory

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

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

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

There Are Certain Things In War Of Which The Commander Alone Comprehends The Importance. Nothing But His Superior Firmness And Ability Can Subdue And Surmount All Difficulties.

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.

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

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

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

There Shall Be No Alps.

You Cannot Drag A Man's Conscience Before Any Tribunal, And No One Is Answerable For His Religious Opinions To Any Power On Earth.

Doctors Will Have More Lives To Answer For In The Next World Than Even We Generals.

There Are Two Merits That Glorify A Person: Being Courageous For A Man And Being Virtuous For A Woman. Besides These Two, There Is Another Merit That Glorifies Both Man And Woman: So Much Loving The Homeland To An Extent With Being Ready To Sacrifice His/her Life, If Needed. Turks Are Such Courageous And Virtuous People. That Is Why You Can Kill A Turk But You Can Never Defeat Them.

Those Who Have Changed The Universe Have Never Done It By Changing Officials, But Always By Inspiring The People.

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

Even When I Am Gone, I Shall Remain In People's Minds The Star Of Their Rights, My Name Will Be The War Cry Of Their Efforts, The Motto Of Their Hopes.

True Wisdom, In General, Consists In Energetic Determination.

A Society Without Religion Is Like A Vessel Without Compass.

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

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.

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

I Base My Calculation On The Expectation That Luck Will Be Against Me.

I Am A Monarch Of God's Creation, And You Reptiles Of The Earth Dare Not Oppose Me. I Render An Account Of My Government To None Save God And Jesus Christ.

Public Instruction Should Be The First Object Of Government.

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.

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

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.

Suicide Is A Crime The Most Revolting To The Feelings; Nor Does Any Reason Suggest Itself To Our Understanding By Which It Can Be Justified. It Certainly Originates In That Species Of Fear Which We Denominate Poltroonery. For What Claim Can That Man Have To Courage Who Trembles At The Frowns Of Fortunes? True Heroism Consists In Being Superior To The Ills Of Life In Whatever Shape They May Challenge Him To Combat.

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.

Without Cavalry, Battles Are Without Result.

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

Insubordination May Only Be The Evidence Of A Strong Mind.

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.

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

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

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

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

One Must Change One's Tactics Every Ten Years If One Wishes To Maintain One's Superiority.

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

A Revolution Can Be Neither Made Nor Stopped. The Only Thing That Can Be Done Is For One Of Several Of Its Children To Give It A Direction By Dint Of Victories.

A People Which Is Able To Say Everything Becomes Able To Do Everything.

Remember That A Man, A True Man, Never Hates. His Rages And His Bad Moods Never Last Beyond The Present Moment-like Electric Shocks.

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

When You Set Out To Take Vienna, Take Vienna.

The Poor Man Commands Respect; The Beggar Must Always Excite Anger.

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

The Only Victory Over Love Is Flight.

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

Act Swiftly And Vigorously, Without 'buts' And 'ifs'.

Nothing Is So Contrary To Military Rules As To Make The Strength Of Your Army Known, Either In The Orders Of The Day, In Proclamations, Or In The Newspapers.

The Object Of War Is Victory, The Object Of Victory Is Conquest, And The Object Of Conquest Is Occupation.

Rascality Has Limits; Stupidity Has Not.

Wherever Flowers Cannot Be Reared, There Man Cannot Live.

A Well-composed Song Strikes The Mind And Softens The Feelings, And Produces A Greater Effect Than A Moral Work, Which Convinces Our Reason, But Does Not Warm Our Feelings, Nor Effect The Slightest Alteration In Our Habits

The Transition From The Defensive To The Offensive Is One Of The Most Delicate Operations In War.

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

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

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

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

It Is Rare That A Legislature Reasons. It Is Too Quickly Impassioned.

The Human Race Is Governed By Its Imagination.

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.

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

Battles Are Lost Or Won In 15 Minutes

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

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

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

The Sentiment Of National Honor Is Never More Than Half Extinguished In The French. It Takes Only A Spark To Re-kindle It.

We Live And Die In The Midst Of Marvels.

The World Soffers A Lot. Not Because The Violence Of Bad People. But Because Of The Silence Of The Good People.

An Aristocracy Is The True Support Of A Monarchy.

I Haven't Known 6 Days Of Happiness In My Life.

Sire, I Am My Own Rudolph Of Hapsburg.

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

I May Be Accused Or Rashness, But Not Sluggishness.

Great Men Are Never Cruel Without Necessity.

There Is No Nation However Small Which Had The Right To Set Itself Free, That Has Not Rescued Itself From The Dishonour Of Obeying The Prince Imposed By An Enemy In The Hour Of Victory.

If I Always Appear Prepared, It Is Because Before Entering An Undertaking, I Have Meditated Long And Have Foreseen What Might Occur. It Is Not Genius Which Reveals To Me Suddenly And Secretly What I Should Do In Circumstances Unexpected By Others; It Is Thought And Preparation

Go Sir, Gallop And Don't Forget That The World Was Made In Six Days. You Can Ask Me For Anything But Not Time.

Arabia Was Idolatrous When, Six Centuries After Jesus, Muhammad Introduced The Worship Of The God Of Abraham, Of Ishmael, Of Moses, And Jesus. The Ariyans And Some Other Sects Had Disturbed The Tranquility Of The East By Agitating The Question Of The Nature Of The Father, The Son, And The Holy Ghost. Muhammad Declared That There Was None But One God Who Had No Father, No Son And That The Trinity Imported The Idea Of Idolatry.

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

In A Narrow Sphere Great Men Are Blunderers.

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

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

Generals Are Not To Be Too Scrupulous.

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

When A Government Is Dependent Upon Bankers For Money, They And Not The Leaders Of The Government Control The Situation

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

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

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

In War, As In Love, We Must Come Into Contact Before We Triumph.

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

There Is No Real Force Without Justice.

An Army Must Have But One Line Of Operations. This Must Be Maintained With Care And Abandoned Only For Major Reasons.

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.

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

What I Have Done Up To This Is Nothing. I Am Only At The Beginning Of The Course I Must Run. Do You Imagine That I Triumph In Italy In Order To Aggrandise The Pack Of Lawyers Who Form The Directory, And Men Like Carnot And Barras? What An Idea!

Forethought We May Have, Undoubtedly, But Not Foresight.

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

I Marvel That Whereas The Ambitious Dreams Of My Self, Caesar, And Alexander Should Have Vanished Into Thin Air, A Judean Peasant-jesus-s Hould Be Able To Stretch His Hands Across The Centuries And Control The Destinies Of Men And Nations.

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

Death Is Nothing, But To Live Defeated And Inglorious Is To Die Daily.

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

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

The Act Of Policing Is, In Order To Punish Less Often, To Punish More Severely.

The Battlefield Is A Scene Of Constant Chaos. The Winner Will Be The One Who Controls That Chaos, Both His Own And The Enemies.

A Prince Should Suspect Everything.

The Jesuits Are A Military Organization, Not A Religious Order. Their Chief Is A General Of An Army, Not The Mere Father Abbot Of A Monastery. And The Aim Of This Organization Is Power - Power In Its Most Despotic Exercise - Absolute Power, Universal Power, Power To Control The World By The Volition Of A Single Man. Jesuitism Is The Most Absolute Of Despotisms - And At The Same Time The Greatest And Most Enormous Of Abuses.

We Walk Faster When We Walk Alone.

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.

It Is A Mistake, Too, To Say That The Face Is The Mirror Of The Soul. The Truth Is, Men Are Very Hard To Know, And Yet, Not To Be Deceived, We Must Judge Them By Their Present Actions, But For The Present Only.

I Know Men; And I Tell You That Jesus Christ Is Not A Man. Superficial Minds See A Resemblance Between Christ And The Founders Of Empires, And The Gods Of Other Religions. That Resemblance Does Not Exist. There Is Between Christianity And Whatever Other Religions The Distance Of Infinity.

We Should Wash Our Dirty Linen At Home.

My Generals Are A Parcel Of Post Inspectors.

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

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

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.

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

Men, In General, Are But Great Children.

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

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.

A Man Will Fight Harder For His Interests Than For His Rights.

You Cannot Treat With All The World At Once.

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

Men Are Lead By Trifles.

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.

The Most Difficult Art Is Not In The Choice Of Men, But In Giving To The Men Chosen The Highest Service Of Which They Are Capable.

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

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