If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius where reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation

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I made all my generals out of mud

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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies

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I have only one counsel for you - be master

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I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up

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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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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon

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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat

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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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A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets

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