"The best generals are those who have served in the artillery."
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"Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies."
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"My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day."
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"All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer."
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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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"Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes."
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"There is a joy in danger."
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"The heart may be broken, and the soul remain unshaken."
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"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies."
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"Half of the people in the world are below average."
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"Great men are never cruel without necessity."
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"I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself."
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"Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals."
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"Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them."
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"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
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"You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks."
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"Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets."
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"The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain."
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"A man becomes the creature of his uniform."
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"A good sketch is better than a long speech."
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