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France will always be a great nation.
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The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.
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The strong are good, only the weak are wicked.
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Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.
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Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.
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I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.
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All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.
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To be believed make the truth unbelievable.
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No amount of money will induce someone to lay down their life, but they will gladly do so for a bit of yellow ribbon.
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True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.
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It is with artillery that war is made.
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Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.
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In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.
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A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.
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This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to see how the word of 'liberty' sets minds on fire.
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Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.
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One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.
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A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.
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When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.
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To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.