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Envy is a declaration of inferiority.
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The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.
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The Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.
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We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.
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It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.
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In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.
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There are two merits that glorify a person: being courageous for a man and being virtuous for a woman. Besides these two, there is another merit that glorifies both man and woman: so much loving the homeland to an extent with being ready to sacrifice his/her life, if needed. Turks are such courageous and virtuous people. That is why you can kill a Turk but you can never defeat them.
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France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers.
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All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.
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It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king.
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The sovereignty of the people is inalienable.
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There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.
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I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.
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The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.
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The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.
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Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.
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An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.
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It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory.
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I shall be an Attila to Venice.
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Religions are all founded on miracles - on things we cannot understand, such as the Trinity. Jesus calls himself the Son of God, and yet is descended from David. I prefer the religion of Mahomet - it is less ridiculous than ours.
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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 am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.
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Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.
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Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.