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All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.
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It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.
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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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In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.
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The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.
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Half of the people in the world are below average.
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Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.
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It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.
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The art of government is not to let me grow stale.
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When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.
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In war it is not men, but the man who counts.
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We are either kings or pawns of men.
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In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.
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Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work
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The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.
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I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding the helm; no matter how strong my hands, the sudden and numerous waves were stronger still, and I was wise enough to yield to them rather than resist them obstinately and make the ship founder. Thus I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances.
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A starving army is actually worse than none.
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America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.
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In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.
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To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind.
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Promptly improve your accidents.
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The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.
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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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I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection.