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God! How men of letters are stupid.

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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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In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.

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I see only my objective - the obstacles must give way.

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The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno.

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I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.

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Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

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You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

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

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A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

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Medicines are only fit for old people.

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I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness.

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Passions change, politics are immutable.

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The worse the troops the greater the need of artillery.

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Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.

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The implements to him who can handle them.

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When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!

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Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.

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I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.

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As a rule it is circumstances that make men.

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