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If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

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From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

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A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.

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Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.

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A leader is a dealer in hope.

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I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.

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The implements to him who can handle them.

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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

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Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

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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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There is no strength without justice.

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History is written by the winners.

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The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.

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An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.

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Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.

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Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.

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Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

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The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with the supreme magistracy.

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