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Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

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What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

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I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.

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It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.

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There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once. I see one thing, namely the enemy's main body. I try to crush it, confident that secondary matters will then settle themselves.

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Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.

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To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.

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To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

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Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.

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All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

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How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.

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I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.

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Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.

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In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not.

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It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.

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A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.

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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

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I see only my objective - the obstacles must give way.

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At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.

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I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding the helm; no matter how strong my hands, the sudden and numerous waves were stronger still, and I was wise enough to yield to them rather than resist them obstinately and make the ship founder. Thus I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances.

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