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

Napoleon Bonaparte

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.
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History Past Reading
Nothing is lost as long as courage remains
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Courage Inspirational Lost
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind
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Best Body Mindset Quiet
The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.
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Law Philosophy
When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.
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Enemy Injury Power Yourself
The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.
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Generosity Hands Money Patriot
I start out by believing the worst
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Believe Myself Start Worst
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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Avoid Himself Laugh Man
Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.
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Greatness Human Music
Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.
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Burn Design Greatness Light Man
All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.
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Greatness Man Missing Opportunity
You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.
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Herself Stupidity Time Yourself
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.
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Action Thinking Time
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
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Perspective Thinking
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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Greatness Need Seek
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets
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Fear Power

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

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