"Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind."
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"I have only one counsel for you - be master."
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"I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God."
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"My enemies make appointments at my tomb."
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"That man made me miss my destiny."
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"Without cavalry, battles are without result."
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"Whatever you ardently and passionately desire, that you obtain."
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"Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration."
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"The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time."
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"Generals who save troops for the next day are always beaten."
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"War is the business of barbarians."
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"A soul you say? Give my pocketwatch to a savage and he'll think it has a soul."
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"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."
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"One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas."
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"A society without religion is like a vessel without compass."
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"The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue."
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"I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky."
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"Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons."
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"In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime."
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"Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work"
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