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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…
- Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
- When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
- The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
- Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
- In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.
- Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.
- The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.
- In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.
- I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding…
- We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness.
- If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything…
- We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do…
- The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that…
- You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them
- As for myself, I do not believe that such a person as Jesus Christ ever existed; but as the people are inclined to superstition, it…
- If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship…
- Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with…
- If you want to get on in this world make many promises, but don't keep them.
- The implements to him who can handle them.
- Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.
- If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.
- You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
- You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.
- In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.
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