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Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

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My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what will live forever, is my Civil Code.

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Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies.

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There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.

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Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.

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My generals are a parcel of post inspectors.

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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

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After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.

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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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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

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There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

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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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High politic is only common sense applied to great things.

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

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People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

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One might as well try to charge through a wall.

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I generally had to give in.

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Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

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To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.

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In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

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