The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.
Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work
If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.
You think you are too intelligent to believe in God. I am not like you.
My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.
Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.
Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.
Occupation is the scythe of time.
Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power.
My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world.
They are the carrion birds of humanity...[speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not real citizens...The evils of Jews do not stem from individuals but from the fundamental nature of these people.
There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.
The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.
The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother
The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.
Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.
Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.
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 from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.
Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.
A man becomes the creature of his uniform.
Opportunities? I make opportunities.
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