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I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.

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Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.

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Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system.

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The tools belong to the man who can use them.

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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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Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war.

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Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

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Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.

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I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.

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A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.

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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

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In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.

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Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.

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You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.

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The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

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Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination.

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An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.

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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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Imagination governs the world.

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The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles.

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