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

Napoleon Bonaparte

China is a sleeping giant; let him sleep, for if he wakes, he will shake the World.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Himself Wake Up World
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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Decision History Past People
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
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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Avoid Himself Laugh Man
To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.
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Deep Himself Man Understand World
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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Control Enemy Oneself War Win
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
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Politics Stupidity
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
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Ability Opportunity
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.
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Action Thinking Time
I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.
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Lying Myself Weapon
If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds, I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
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Art Avoid Fate Mindset Myself Risk War
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
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Ambition Bad Character Goodness Greatness Passion Principle
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.
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Freedom History Man Poet Writing
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Deep People Silence Talk
A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets.
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Ideas Revolution
There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
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Death Law Safety

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