"The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope."
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"It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed."
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"France has more need of me than I have need of France."
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"The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it."
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"To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government."
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"A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything."
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"You may ask me for anything you like except time."
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"Men are led by trifles."
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"There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging."
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"I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection."
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"The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods."
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"The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors."
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"Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry."
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"All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world."
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"To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity."
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"A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death."
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"For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!"
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"In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them."
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"Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living."
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"I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it."
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