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To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.
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I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.
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Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.
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He who is unmoved by tears has no heart.
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The secret of war lies in the communications.
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Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.
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Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.
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The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with the supreme magistracy.
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The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.
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Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.
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When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.
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I have come to realise that men are not born to be free.
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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 magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.
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I know men, and I tell you, Jesus is more than a man. Comparison is impossible between Him and any other human being who ever lived, because He was the Son of God.
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Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!
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The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.
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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.
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Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.
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Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.
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Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.
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Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.
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A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.
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The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful!