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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

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Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.

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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.

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The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

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Collective crimes incriminate no one.

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Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.

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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.

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The Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.

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My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.

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Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.

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It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.

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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.

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Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.

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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.

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Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

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Whatever you ardently and passionately desire, that you obtain.

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The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.

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Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power.

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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

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Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war.

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