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Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

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War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

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I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

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The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics

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Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

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Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world

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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.

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The French complain of everything, and always.

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As for myself, I do not believe that such a person as Jesus Christ ever existed; but as the people are inclined to superstition, it is proper not to oppose them.

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

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Better to have an open enemy, than hidden friends.

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Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.

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If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

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Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

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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.

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International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.

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To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

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We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.

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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

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Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.

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