"The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man."
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"Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide."
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"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."
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"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots."
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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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"In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage."
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"The word impossible is not in my dictionary."
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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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"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination."
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"He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander."
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"Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them."
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"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself."
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"It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr."
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"With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything."
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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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"The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny."
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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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"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war."
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"The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means."
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"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."
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"All religions have been made by men."
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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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"Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking."
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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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"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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"War is the business of barbarians."
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"We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him."
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"A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories."
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"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."
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"France has more need of me than I have need of France."
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