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When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation

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Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

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Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.

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To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes

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Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.

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In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing.

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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

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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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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

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The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.

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Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me

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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

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It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one.

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Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

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A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.

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A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him

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Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.

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Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.

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Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work

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The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object.

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