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In war it is not men, but the man who counts.

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The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not known the value of five minutes

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Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

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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.

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Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.

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The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

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God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.

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Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.

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I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.

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In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.

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Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

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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.

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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

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

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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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Great battles are won with artillery.

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While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper.

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Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

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After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.

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