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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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In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.

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It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.

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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

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Promptly improve your accidents.

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A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?

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We are nothing but by the law.

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Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on the flanks of the infantry, especially when the latter is engaged in front.

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Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

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Vengeance is without foresight.

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Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

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It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave.

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A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.

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It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed.

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A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.

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Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

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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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A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.

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Without cavalry, battles are without result.

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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

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