"Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am."
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"Better live a King, than a Prince."
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"From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs."
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"Let the path be open to talent."
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"Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my soldiers and I can conquer the world."
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"Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth."
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"In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse."
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"What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared."
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"Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks for that which a philosopher may often seek in vain at the hands of his friends, or a father of his children, or a bride of her spouse, or a man of his brother. He asks for the human heart; He will have it entirely to Himself. He demands it unconditionally; and forthwith His demand is granted. Wonderful!"
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"The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country."
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"The English have no exaulted sentiments. They can all be bought."
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"The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot"
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"The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in proportion as the mind that produces it is universal."
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"War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that."
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"It is easier to brave and threaten, than to conquer an enemy."
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"A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position."
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"When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day."
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"The affairs of war, like the destiny of battles, as well as empires, hang upon a spiders thread."
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"After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off."
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"Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?"
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