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The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.
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Opportunities? I make opportunities.
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I haven't known 6 days of happiness in my life.
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In war it is not men, but the man who counts.
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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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We are either kings or pawns of men.
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Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.
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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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It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.
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A starving army is actually worse than none.
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Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work
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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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Half of the people in the world are below average.
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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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In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.
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In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.
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In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.
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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.
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Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.
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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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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.