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In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.
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Great men grow tired of contentedness.
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As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.
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A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.
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Terrorism, War & Bankruptcy are caused by the privatization of money, issued as a debt and compounded by interest.
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Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.
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There is no strength without justice.
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Lack is more in means, than in principles.
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I like honest men of all colors.
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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.
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Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire.
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment.
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The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.
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Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.
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Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.
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Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.
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Success is the most convincing talker in the world.
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The superior man is never in anyone's way.
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In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.
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Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
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All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
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A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.
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My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.
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To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.
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