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Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.
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War is 90% information.
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Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation.
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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
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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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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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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.
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Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.
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Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.
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I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.
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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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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
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If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion.
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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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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.
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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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Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.
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To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.