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If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.

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Occupation is the scythe of time.

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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

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One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

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Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.

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It is with artillery that war is made.

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It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

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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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I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.

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Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits

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Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.

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One bad general is worth two good ones.

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The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought.

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Success is the most convincing talker in the world.

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Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.

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Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.

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All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.

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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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He is almost a statesman. He lies well.

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Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

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