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Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.

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God is on the side with the best artillery

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Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon.

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A good sketch is better than a long speech.

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Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.

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

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When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.

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A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been deceived. Laplace saw no question from its true point of view; he sought subtleties everywhere; had only doubtful ideas, and finally carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration.

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To command, you must first of all speak to the eyes.

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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

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It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.

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The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread.

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One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

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But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen. [Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]

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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

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The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.

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To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

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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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A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.

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