"Ability has nothing to do with opportunity."
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"Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency."
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"Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe."
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"Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied."
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"Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them."
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"Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror."
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"Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night."
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"One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope."
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"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination."
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"There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit."
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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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"Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!"
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"What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?"
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"My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what will live forever, is my Civil Code."
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"You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them"
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"There shall be no Alps."
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"Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone."
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"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in."
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"Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine."
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"Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion."
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