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It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.

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When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.

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Good infantry is without doubt the sinews of an army; but if it has to fight a long time against very superior artillery, it will become demoralized and will be destroyed.

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Adversity is the midwife of genius

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Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!

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A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.

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A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.

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You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them

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The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot

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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

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It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.

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I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself.

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Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

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To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.

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Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits

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

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Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

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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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