"Usually, it is man who attacks; as for me, I defend myself, and I often capitulate."
"In politics evils should be remedied not revenged."
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Source: Napoleon III (emperor of the French.) (1859). “Napoleonic ideas. Des idées napoléoniennes, tr. by J.A. Dorr”, p.41
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