"Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human."
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"A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity."
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"Immortality is the best recollection one leaves."
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"A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour."
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"Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body."
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"Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road."
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"An empty throne always tempts me."
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"In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior talents and resolution."
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"We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good."
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"War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts."
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"Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion."
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"We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost."
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"History is a myth that men agree to believe."
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"In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter."
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"An urgent missive sent to Josephine Home in three days. Don't wash."
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"Reprisals are but a sad resource."
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"Sometimes a great example is necessary to all the public functionaries of the state."
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"Man is entitled by birthright to a share of the earth's produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence."
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"You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth."
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"Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille."
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