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Promptly improve your accidents.
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There is no real force without justice.
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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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In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.
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On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it.
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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.
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Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.
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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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Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
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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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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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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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Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.
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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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Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.
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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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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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Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
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Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.
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You may ask me for anything you like except time.
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I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
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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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A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.
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Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.