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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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The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.

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I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.

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Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.

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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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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

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More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.

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Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

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The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.

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France has more need of me than I have need of France.

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If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.

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Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.

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An empty throne always tempts me.

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Victory is not always winning the battle...but rising every time you fall.

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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

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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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Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.

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When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers.

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War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.

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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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