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You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month.
There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
I have come to realise that men are not born to be free.
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.
There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.
I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.
Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.
Wherever flowers cannot be reared, there man cannot live.
Force is the law of animals, men are ruled by conviction.
Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.
The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.
The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.
Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.
Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.
The Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.
The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.
I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king.
Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.
Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.
All the women in the world would not make me lose an hour.
A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.
High politic is only common sense applied to great things.
Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.
War is cruel to the people, and terrible to the conquered.
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.
We often get in quicker by the back door than by the front.
The policies of all powers are inherent in their geography.
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.
I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it
Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.
A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.
Generals who save troops for the next day are always beaten.
Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles.
Public instruction should be the first object of government.
We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.
Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.
A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.
What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.