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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Napoleon Bonaparte

War is the business of barbarians.

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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

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The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

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Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.

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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

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You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

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The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

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You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

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god

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

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What is history but a fable agreed upon?

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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

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History is a set of lies agreed upon.

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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

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Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

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A leader is a dealer in hope.

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Imagination rules the world.

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The human race is governed by its imagination.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A leader is a dealer in hope.

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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

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Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

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men

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

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men

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

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men

All religions have been made by men.

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men

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

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men

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

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men

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

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men

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

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One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

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Respect the burden.

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The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Napoleon Bonaparte

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

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war

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

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war

War is the business of barbarians.

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war

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

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