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To extraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies.
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My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.
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The Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.
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The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.
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It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king.
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There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.
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Jesus Christ was more than man.
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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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In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.
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All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.
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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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The sovereignty of the people is inalienable.
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France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers.
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I shall be an Attila to Venice.
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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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Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.
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An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.
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Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.
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The word impossible is not French.
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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 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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A King should sacrifice the best affections of his heart for the good of his country; no sacrifice should be above his determination.
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Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.