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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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The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

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In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior talents and resolution.

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In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.

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It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave.

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England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.

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The army is the true nobility of our country.

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A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.

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Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

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France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

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He is almost a statesman. He lies well.

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When people cease to complain, they cease to think.

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Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.

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If you (to General Bertrand) do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well; then I did wrong to make you a general.

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If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.

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A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.

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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

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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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Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.

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I made all my generals out of mud.

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