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- Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
- Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
- It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
- Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
- Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
- Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
- France has more need of me than I have need of France.
- The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
- 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…
- In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.
- Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.
- A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but…
- Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.
- I know men, and I tell you, Jesus is more than a man. Comparison is impossible between Him and any other human being who ever…
- Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
- Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.
- What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more…
- At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.
- What is a throne? - a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state- I alone am here the representative of…
- Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls…
- Lack is more in means, than in principles.
- Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.
- An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined.
- There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that…
- When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary…
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