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The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.

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All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

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In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

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Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.

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France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.

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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

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War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

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We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good.

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I shall be an Attila to Venice.

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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

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There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.

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All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

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A man becomes the creature of his uniform.

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One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

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Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.

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Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.

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War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.

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The first quality of the commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself to be confused by either good or bad news.

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