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On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it.

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We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.

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He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

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Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.

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A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity.

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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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The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

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It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one.

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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

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Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.

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Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.

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It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.

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To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

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The law, that is what makes men stay honest.

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Secrets travel fast in Paris.

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What is a throne? - a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state- I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public - people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.

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France has more need of me than I have need of France.

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

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Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.

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