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Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.

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Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

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What is history but a fable agreed upon?

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You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

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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.

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I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.

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Better to have an open enemy, than hidden friends.

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Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.

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A general must be a charlatan.

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At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.

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This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.

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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.

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Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

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Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied.

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I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.

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The life of a citizen is the property of his country.

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From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

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Man is entitled by birthright to a share of the earth's produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence.

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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.

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When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.

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