"It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it."
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"Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement."
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"All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour."
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"Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world."
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"The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother"
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"There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed."
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"Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception."
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"Alexander, Charlemagne and myself all tried to found an empire on force and we failed. Jesus Christ is building an empire on love, and today there are millions of people who would gladly die for His sake."
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"I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me."
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"It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished."
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"Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to."
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"Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything."
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"Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances"
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"Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it."
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"In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it."
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"It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system."
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"Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas."
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"A man like me troubles himself little about a million men."
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"In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!"
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"What is history but a fable agreed upon?"
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