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From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

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How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?

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Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.

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Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage.

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The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object.

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Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.

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

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To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes

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In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.

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I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it

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Speeches pass away, but acts remain.

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I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.

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

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The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

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The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.

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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

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Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on the flanks of the infantry, especially when the latter is engaged in front.

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I have come to realise that men are not born to be free.

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If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought.

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As a rule it is circumstances that make men.

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