There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.
Nothing is lost as long as courage remains
The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
Half of the people in the world are below average.
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it.
No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.
History is written by the winners.
Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus. The Ariyans and some other sects had disturbed the tranquility of the east by agitating the question of the nature of the Father, the son, and the Holy Ghost. Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported the idea of idolatry.
Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Adversity is the midwife of genius
Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.
This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.
After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.
How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.
You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.
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