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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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abando...
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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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Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
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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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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 go...
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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War is the business of barbarians.
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, bo...
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, t...
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What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.
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Chief of the Army.
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The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anythi...
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In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
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To exraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being usef...
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Death is nothing; but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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Truth alone wounds.
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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
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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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