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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

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Reprisals are but a sad resource.

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Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.

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Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.

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The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not correspond to the difficulties which all existence contains. Let it be rejected, and the whole world is an enigma; let it be accepted, and we possess a wonderful explanation of the history of man.

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Great men grow tired of contentedness.

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Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.

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God! How men of letters are stupid.

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History is a set of lies agreed upon.

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Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.

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There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.

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Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation

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A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

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True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.

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Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space.

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In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

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I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.

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It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.

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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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