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The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.

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We should wash our dirty linen at home.

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It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.

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I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

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The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.

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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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War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered.

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My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world.

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Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.

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Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war

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I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.

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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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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment.

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The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.

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The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.

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The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.

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Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

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In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!

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Collective crimes incriminate no one.

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Who saves his country violates no law.

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