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

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Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.

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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

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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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All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.

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I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.

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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering.

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The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot

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After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.

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I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.

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Nothing is so important in war as an undivided command.

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Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia.

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In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.

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Unity of command is essential to the economy of time. Warfare in the field was like a siege: by directing all one's force to a single point a breach might be made, and the equilibrium of opposition destroyed.

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Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

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He who is unmoved by tears has no heart.

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Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?

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There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once. I see one thing, namely the enemy's main body. I try to crush it, confident that secondary matters will then settle themselves.

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It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.

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Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on the flanks of the infantry, especially when the latter is engaged in front.

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