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Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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France has more need of me than I have need of France.
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
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Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.
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War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.
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There are two kinds of fidelity, that of dogs and that of cats; you, gentleman, have the fidelity of cats who never leave the house.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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A true man hates no one.
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Parties weaken themselves by their fear of capable men.
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A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
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I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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Victory belongs to the most persevering.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.
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The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
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