"Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer."
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"A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences."
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"Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government."
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"Medicines are only fit for old people."
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"It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance."
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"A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out."
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"The heart of a statesman should be in his head."
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"Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose."
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"I made all my generals out of mud."
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"Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage."
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"True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination."
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"In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue."
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"There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties."
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"Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards"
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"Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same."
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"Public instruction should be the first object of government."
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"Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity."
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"In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing."
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"Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism."
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"Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code."
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