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If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

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It is neither holy, Roman or an empire.

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There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate

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Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.

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It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.

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

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A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.

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We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.

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The implements to him who can handle them.

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The first quality of the commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself to be confused by either good or bad news.

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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

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Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.

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If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.

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Space we can recover; time never.

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Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

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Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

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History is written by the winners.

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A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

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Jesus Chris was more than man.

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Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.

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