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Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.

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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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All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

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A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.

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The life of a citizen is the property of his country.

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The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.

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

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Man will believe anything, as long as it's not in the bible.

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The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.

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True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

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Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.

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

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A Constitution should be short and obscure.

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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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Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.

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The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

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Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

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Battles are lost or won in 15 minutes

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Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.

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A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.

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