The only victory over love is flight.
Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.
There is no real force without justice.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.
It's not the size of the army but the power within the army.
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.
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.
The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother
Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.
Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.
I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection.
Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination.
You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.
Great men are never cruel without necessity.
In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.
A man is known by his conduct to his wife, to his family, and to those under him.
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 is proper not to oppose them.
The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.
War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.
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