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Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
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War is the business of barbarians.
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We walk faster when we walk alone.
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If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
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Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.
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In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.
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I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
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Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.
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Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.
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But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen. [Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]
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Unity of command is essential to the economy of time. Warfare in the field was like a siege: by directing all one's force to a single point a breach might be made, and the equilibrium of opposition destroyed.
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It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.
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Kiss the feet of Popes provided their hands are tied.
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In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.
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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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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
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The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
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That man made me miss my destiny.
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An empty throne always tempts me.
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Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
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As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.
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