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The strong are good, only the weak are wicked.
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The implements to him who can handle them.
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Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage.
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The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object.
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Occupation is the scythe of time.
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Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.
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Leaders deal in hope.
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It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one.
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In war, men are nothing, one man is everything.
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A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.
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Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power.
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The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.
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The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army. . . . The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide.
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What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do you imagine that I triumph in Italy in order to aggrandise the pack of lawyers who form the Directory, and men like Carnot and Barras? What an idea!
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Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.
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Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.
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I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.
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Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.
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In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!
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Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road.
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The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.
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The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance.
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What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?
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A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him.
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