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A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.

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The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.

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A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been deceived. Laplace saw no question from its true point of view; he sought subtleties everywhere; had only doubtful ideas, and finally carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration.

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Victory and disaster establish indestructible bonds between armies and their commanders.

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Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.

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I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

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If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

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I have only one counsel for you - be master.

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There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.

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An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.

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An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.

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One might as well try to charge through a wall.

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Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.

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History paints the human heart.

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All things proclaim the existence of God.

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What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

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Generals who save troops for the next day are always beaten.

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My generals are a parcel of post inspectors.

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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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