"God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles."
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"Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine."
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"True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune."
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"We are born, we live, we die among supernatural."
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"Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people."
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"Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power."
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"The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone."
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"God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around."
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"The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender."
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"I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding the helm; no matter how strong my hands, the sudden and numerous waves were stronger still, and I was wise enough to yield to them rather than resist them obstinately and make the ship founder. Thus I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances."
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"Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me."
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"The life of a citizen is the property of his country."
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"Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything."
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"When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out."
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"The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography."
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"I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator."
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"A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers."
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"The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man."
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"Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time."
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"Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man."
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