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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 the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

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Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.

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To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

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I would rather have a general who was lucky than one who was good.

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England is a nation of shopkeepers.

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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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From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

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In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

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In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

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The superior man is never in anyone's way.

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Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.

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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

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Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia.

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It is neither holy, Roman or an empire.

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The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary.

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I made all my generals out of mud.

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It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.

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He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.

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Power is founded upon opinion.

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