"True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude."
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"The human race is governed by its imagination."
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"The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth."
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"I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness."
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"Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where a surprise is possible. By this means you will have time to unite all your forces before he can attack you."
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"Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them."
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"All things proclaim the existence of God."
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"People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful."
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"They wanted me to be a Washington."
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"The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory"
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"Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain."
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"We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness."
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"When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you."
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"Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man."
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"The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes."
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"There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear."
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"Ability is nothing without opportunity."
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"I engage and after that I see what to do."
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"A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?"
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"Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze."
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