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"There are two merits that glorify a person: being courageous for a man and being virtuous for a woman. Besides these two, there is another merit that glorifies both man and woman: so much loving the homeland to an extent with being ready to sacrifice his/her life, if needed. Turks are such courageous and virtuous people. That is why you can kill a Turk but you can never defeat them."
"Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything."
"The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world."
"Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war"
"If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them."
"He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly."
"Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach."
"France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character."
"There are two kinds of fidelity, that of dogs and that of cats; you, gentleman, have the fidelity of cats who never leave the house."
"The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not correspond to the difficulties which all existence contains. Let it be rejected, and the whole world is an enigma; let it be accepted, and we possess a wonderful explanation of the history of man."
"Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave."
"Where flowers degenerate man cannot live."
"A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it."
"The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences."
"The French complain of everything, and always."
"Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents."
"Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there."
"Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age."
"Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it."
"Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks."