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Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.

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Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

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We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.

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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

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Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.

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Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.

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Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

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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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Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.

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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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When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.

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My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.

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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

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

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Act swiftly and vigorously, without 'buts' and 'ifs'.

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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

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It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

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Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.

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I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

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