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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.
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In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.
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On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it.
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America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations.
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There is no real force without justice.
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The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country.
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Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
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A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits.
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Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.
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Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
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I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.
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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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Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.
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Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.
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Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!
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Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.
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Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.
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I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
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You may ask me for anything you like except time.
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In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.
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To command, you must first of all speak to the eyes.
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How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.
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To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.
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The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.