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One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
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The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
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Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
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Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards.
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An army marches on its stomach.
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A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.
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We should wash our dirty linen at home.
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You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month.
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History paints the human heart.
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If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.
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We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good.
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I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.
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The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.
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Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
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No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.
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Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.
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My generals are a parcel of post inspectors.
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Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
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I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations.
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
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Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.
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In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.
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Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.
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