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I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding the helm; no matter how strong my hands, the sudden and numerous waves were stronger still, and I was wise enough to yield to them rather than resist them obstinately and make the ship founder. Thus I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances.

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My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.

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France will always be a great nation.

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It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.

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Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

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You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.

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Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

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It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.

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We are nothing but by the law.

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My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what will live forever, is my Civil Code.

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In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.

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The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

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Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances

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Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world

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I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.

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A woman laughing is a woman conquered.

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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

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Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.

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God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.

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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

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