"A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced."
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"Against attempts on my life, I trust in my luck, my good genius, and my guards."
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"You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense."
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"With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything."
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"It is cowardly to commit suicide. The English often kill themselves. It is a malady caused by the humid climate."
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"High politic is only common sense applied to great things."
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"I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers"
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"The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need."
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"All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith."
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"Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other."
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"The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of all."
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"I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it"
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"Promptly improve your accidents."
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"The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary."
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"I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute."
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"He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice."
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"There is no power without justice."
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"Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles."
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"When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary."
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"Nothing is so important in war as an undivided command."
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