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Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.

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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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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

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There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.

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For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor

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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

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All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.

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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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Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

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Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

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The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army. . . . The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide.

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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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The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

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A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.

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It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed.

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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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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

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No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

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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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