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I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.

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Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me

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True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

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Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

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When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.

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

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The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.

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The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.

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Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

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A prince should suspect everything.

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Human life is the only thing that takes care of itself.

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

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

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True wisdom, in general, consists in energetic determination.

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There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.

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One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.

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What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

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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.

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Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.

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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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