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Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.
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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.
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Great men grow tired of contentedness.
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We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.
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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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After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.
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Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes.
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Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.
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The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.
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I start out by believing the worst.
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God is on the side of the heaviest cannon.
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All things proclaim the existence of God.
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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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Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.
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There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.
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It is necessary for the heart to feel as for the body to be fed.
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Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.
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Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work
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In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.
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I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier.
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Wherever flowers cannot be reared, there man cannot live.
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The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.
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A beautiful woman like eyes, and a good heart; One is a beautiful thing, and other treasures.
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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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