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In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!
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All Italians are plunderers.
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Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.
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Men are ruled by toys.
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Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
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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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Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation.
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The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory.
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England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.
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Keep a good table and attend to the ladies.
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Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!
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You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
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Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.
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When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.
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The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.
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There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.
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When people cease to complain, they cease to think.
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A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity.
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Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.
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It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.
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Great battles are won with artillery.
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The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.
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A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.
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You cannot treat with all the world at once.