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In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.

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I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness.

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The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.

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Passions change, politics are immutable.

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The worse the troops the greater the need of artillery.

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From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.

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The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.

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Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

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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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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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The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.

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If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

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As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.

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As a rule it is circumstances that make men.

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Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.

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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

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When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation

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When people cease to complain, they cease to think.

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Speeches pass away, but acts remain.

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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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