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"The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society."
"I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne."
"A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations."
"True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat."
"The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means."
"The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success."
"America is a fortunate country. She grows by the follies of our European nations."
"One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them."
"Put your iron hand in a velvet glove."
"The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable."
"A man is known by his conduct to his wife, to his family, and to those under him."
"To extraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies."
"Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy."
"The superior man is never in anyone's way."
"A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."
"In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them."
"It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it."
"Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting."
"The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast."
"For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections."