One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTETo understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.
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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
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Conquests will come and go but Delambre’s work will endure.
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Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.
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Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.
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The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.
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Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.
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Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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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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A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets.
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Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.
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When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
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Victory belongs to the most persevering.
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Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances
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You don’t reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
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There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
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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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China is a sleeping giant; let him sleep, for if he wakes, he will shake the World.
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The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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