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Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.

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Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

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History is written by the winners.

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Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.

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Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.

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Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

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He is almost a statesman. He lies well.

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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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Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

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Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.

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I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection.

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Great battles are won with artillery.

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To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

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A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.

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Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.

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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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What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the confidence of each in themselves; that is to say, bravery, patience, and all that is contained in the idea of moral means.

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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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Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally.

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I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.

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