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A starving army is actually worse than none.

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Leaders deal in hope.

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In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

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Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

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

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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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How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

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Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.

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All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.

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

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He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.

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Unavailable wars are always just.

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

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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

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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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Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

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Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road.

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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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Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

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