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Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

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The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.

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Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.

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A true man hates no one.

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Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.

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Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war.

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Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.

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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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It is easier to brave and threaten, than to conquer an enemy.

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

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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 tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

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A starving army is actually worse than none.

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Leaders have to be dealers in hope.

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You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

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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 hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.

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To extraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies.

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Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.

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Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

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