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A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.

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Speeches pass away, but acts remain.

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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

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War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered.

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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

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Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea.

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Providence is always on the side of the last reserve.

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If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

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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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Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.

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There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.

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I made all my generals out of mud.

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Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

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Force is the law of animals, men are ruled by conviction.

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When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

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Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?

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In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

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Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world

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