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What Is History But A Fable Agreed Upon?

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

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

We Should Always Go Before Our Enemies With Confidence, Otherwise Our Apparent Uneasiness Inspires Them With Greater Boldness.

Music Is The Voice That Tells Us That The Human Race Is Greater Than It Knows.

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

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

Great Men Are Never Cruel Without Necessity.

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

Give Me A Turkish Army. I Will Conquer World.

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

We Walk Faster When We Walk Alone.

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.

Give Me A Man With A Good Allowance Of Nose,... When I Want Any Good Head-work Done I Choose A Man - Provided His Education Has Been Suitable - With A Long Nose.

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

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

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

The Concordat Is Not The Victory Of Any One Party But The Consolidation Of All.

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.

War Is Cruel To The People, And Terrible To The Conquered.

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

It Is Cowardly To Commit Suicide. The English Often Kill Themselves. It Is A Malady Caused By The Humid Climate.

Public Opinion Is A Mysterious And Invisible Power, To Which Everything Must Yield. There Is Nothing More Fickle, More Vague, Or More Powerful; Yet Capricious As It Is, It Is Nevertheless Much More Often True, Reasonable, And Just, Than We Imagine.

Europe Thus Divided Into Nationalities Freely Formed And Free Internally, Peace Between States Would Have Become Easier: The United States Of Europe Would Become A Possibility.

It Should Not Be Believed That A March Of Three Or Four Days In The Wrong Direction Can Be Corrected By A Countermarch. As A Rule, This Is To Make Two Mistakes Instead Of One.

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

I Am A Soldier And Accustomed To Risking My Life Every Day. I Am Full Of The Fire Of Youth; I Cannot Act With The Restraint Of An Accomplished Diplomat.

In War, The Moral Element And Public Opinion Are Half The Battle.

Malice Delights To Blacken The Characters Of Prominent Men.

Great Men Are Meteors, Consuming Themselves To Light The World

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.

Prison, Blood, Death, Create Enthusiasts And Martyrs, And Bring Forth Courage And Desperate Resolution.

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

A Magistrate Is Not A Father; He Must Be Just And Severe. Only Tyrants Are Fathers.

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.

France Is Invaded; I Am Leaving To Take Command Of My Troops, And, With God's Help And Their Valor, I Hope Soon To Drive The Enemy Beyond The Frontier.

Soldiers Generally Win Battles; Generals Get Credit For Them.

Men Will Risk Their Lives, Even Die For Ribbons.

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

England Would Be Better Off Without Canada; It Keeps Her In A Prepared State For War At A Great Expense And Constant Irritation.

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

War Is Like Government, A Matter Of Tact.

Generals Are Not To Be Too Scrupulous.

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

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.

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

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.

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

It Strengthens The Bonds Between Nations To Have The Same Civil Laws And The Same Monetary System.

Monetary System

Insubordination May Only Be The Evidence Of A Strong Mind.

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

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

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

I Do Not Amuse Myself By Thinking Of Dead People.

In A Battle, As In A Siege, The Art Consists In Concentrating Very Heavy Fire On A Particular Point. The Line Of Battle Once Established, The One Who Has The Ability To Concentrate An Unlooked For Mass Of Artillery Suddenly And Unexpectedly On One Of These Points Is Sure To Carry The Day.

Rashness Succeeds Often, Still More Often Fails.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Great Proof Of Madness Is The Disproportion Of One's Designs To One's Means.

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

There Are So Many Laws That No One Is Safe From Hanging.

Where The Government Is Weak, Military Sway Prevails.

Audacity Succeeds As Often As It Fails; In Life It Has An Even Chance.

A Woman Laughing Is A Woman Conquered.

A Revolution Is An Idea Which Has Found Its Bayonets.

We May Stop Ourselves When Going Up, Never When Coming Down.

If They Want Peace, Nations Should Avoid The Pin-pricks That Precede Cannon Shots.

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?

Incidents Should Not Govern Policy; But, Policy Incidents.

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

In The Eyes Of Empire Builders Men Are Not Men But Instruments.

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

Great Events Ever Depend But Upon A Single Hair. The Adroit Man Profits By Everything, Neglects Nothing Which Can Increase His Chances; The Less Adroit, By Sometimes Disregarding A Single Chance, Fails In Everything.

Six Hours' Sleep For A Man, Seven For A Woman, And Eight For A Fool.

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

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

Un Croquis Vaut Mieux Qu

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

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

For My Part, It Is Not The Mystery Of The Incarnation Which I Discover In Religion, But The Mystery Of Social Order, Which Associates With Heaven That Idea Of Equality Which Prevents The Rich From Destroying The Poor

Do You Know What Is More Hard To Bear Than The Reverses Of Fortune? It Is The Baseness, The Hideous Ingratitude, Of Man.

Space We Can Recover; Time Never.

Procrastination

I Start Out By Believing The Worst

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

I Would Rather Suffer With Coffee Than Be Senseless.

I Made All My Generals Out Of Mud.

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

Vengeance Has No Foresight.

All Things Proclaim The Existence Of God.

Existence Of God

It Is Not Enough To Give Orders They Must Be Obeyed.

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

The More I Study The World, The More I Am Convinced Of The Inability Of Brute Force To Create Anything Durable.

A Prince Should Suspect Everything.

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

War Is A Serious Game In Which A Man Risks His Reputation, His Troops, And His Country. A Sensible Man Will Search Himself To Know Whether Or Not He Is Fitted For The Trade.

Fashion Condemns Us To Many Follies, The Greatest Is To Make Oneself Its Slave.

While I Live I Will Never Resort To Irredeemable Paper.

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

Broken Promises

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.

We Must Laugh At Man To Avoid Crying For Him.

The Infectiousness Of Crime Is Like That Of The Plague.

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

Independence, Like Honor, Is A Rocky Island, Without A Beach.

Vengeance Is Without Foresight.

The Reason I Beat The Austrians Is, They Did Not Known The Value Of Five Minutes

Forethought We May Have, Undoubtedly, But Not Foresight.

Clever Policy Consists In Making Nations Believe They Are Free.

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

Reprisals Are But A Sad Resource.

Time Is The Great Art Of Man.

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

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.

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

Treason Is A Matter Of Dates.

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

It Is With Artillery That War Is Made.

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

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

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.

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

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

There Is A Joy In Danger.

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

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

You Don't Reason With Intellectuals. You Shoot Them.

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

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.

Religion Is Excellent Stuff For Keeping Common People Quiet.

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

In A Narrow Sphere Great Men Are Blunderers.

Rigorous Authority And Justice Are The Kindness Of Kings.

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

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

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

Die Young, And I Shall Accept Your Death-but Not If You Have Lived Without Glory, Without Being Useful To Your Country, Without Leaving A Trace Of Your Existence: For That Is Not To Have Lived At All.

Nothing Renders A Nation So Despicable As Religious Despotism.

Posterity Will Talk Of Washington As The Founder Of A Great Empire, When My Name Shall Be Lost In The Vortex Of Revolution.

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

History Is A Set Of Lies Agreed Upon.

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

The Mohammedan Religion Is The Finest Of All.

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.

A Society Without Religion Is Like A Vessel Without Compass.

A Great Nation Should Have A Fixed Government, So That The Death Of One Man Should Not Overturn It.

It Is Only With Prudence, Sagacity, And Much Dexterity That Great Aims Are Accomplished, And All Obstacles Surmounted. Otherwise Nothing Is Accomplished.

High Politic Is Only Common Sense Applied To Great Things.

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

War,--the Trade Of Barbarians!

In Matters Of Government, Justice Means Force As Well As Virtue.

In War, As In Politics, No Evil - Even If It Is Permissible Under The Rules - Is Excusable Unless It Is Absolutely Necessary. Everything Beyond That Is A Crime.

It Is Not Necessary To Bury The Truth. It Is Sufficient Merely To Delay It Until Nobody Cares.

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

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

A Journalist Is A Grumbler, A Censurer, A Giver Of Advice, A Regent Of Sovereigns, A Tutor Of Nations. Four Hostile Newspapers Are More To Be Feared Than A Thousand Bayonets.

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

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.

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

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

Men Are Moved By Two Levers Only: Fear And Self Interest.

We Are Born, We Live, We Die Among Supernatural.

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

Nature Intended Women To Be Our Slaves. They Are Our Property.

There Is No Real Force Without Justice.

History Is Written By The Winners.

The Secret Of War Lies In The Communications.

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

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

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.

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.

The Bullet That Will Kill Me Is Not Yet Cast.

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

The Laws Of Circumstance Are Abolished By New Circumstances.

Public Esteem Is The Recompense Of Honest Men.

The Army Is The True Nobility Of Our Country.

Strangers Are Just Friends Waiting To Happen. To Become A Good Man, One Must Have Faithful Friends, Or Outright Enemies.

Everything Is More Or Less Organized Matter. To Think So Is Against Religion, But I Think So Just The Same.

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.

The World Is Not Ruined By The Wickedness Of The Wicked, But By The Weakness Of The Good.

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

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

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.

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

Music, Of All The Liberal Arts, Has The Greatest Influence Over The Passions, And It Is That To Which The Legislator Ought To Give The Greatest Encouragement.

If We Could Read The Past Histories Of All Our Enemies We Would Disregard All Hostility For Them.

In A Conquered Country Benevolence Is Not Humanitarianism. It Is A General Political Axiom That A Conqueror Must Not Inspire A Good Opinion Of His Benevolence Until He Has Demonstrated That He Can Be Severe With Malefactors.

The Sovereignty Of The People Is Inalienable.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, And I Have Founded Empires. But On What Did We Rest The Creations Of Our Genius? Upon Force. Jesus Christ Founded His Empire Upon Love; And At This Hour Millions Of Men Would Die For Him.

Inspirational Love

Necessity Dominates Inclination, Will, And Right.

My Dominion Ends Where That Of Conscience Begins.

I Am Surrounded By Priests Who Repeat Incessantly That Their Kingdom Is Not Of This World, And Yet They Lay Their Hands On Everything They Can Get.

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

I Wish I Could Take A Raincheck On June 18.1815

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

Unavailable Wars Are Always Just.

Men Take Only Their Needs Into Consideration - Never Their Abilities.

What Is The Government? Nothing, Unless Supported By Opinion.

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