"I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms."
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"Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin."
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"I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution."
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"When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes."
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"In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together."
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"The Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered."
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"Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system."
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"Rascality has limits; stupidity has not."
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"When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity."
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"An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy."
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"Wherever flowers cannot be reared, there man cannot live."
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"In war, men are nothing, one man is everything."
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"They are the carrion birds of humanity...[speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not real citizens...The evils of Jews do not stem from individuals but from the fundamental nature of these people."
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"Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables."
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"The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war."
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"I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier."
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"Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success."
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"But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen. [Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]"
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"There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich."
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"What is a throne? - a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state- I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public - people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France."
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