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Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.

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One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

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One might as well try to charge through a wall.

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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment.

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When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

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Nothing is lost as long as courage remains

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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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When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

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Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.

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It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

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The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.

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

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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

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To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.

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He who is unmoved by tears has no heart.

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

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I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and the founders of empires, and the gods of other religions. That resemblance does not exist. There is between Christianity and whatever other religions the distance of infinity.

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God is on the side with the best artillery

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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

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In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.

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