- A true man hates no one.
- There is a sleeping giant (China). Let him sleep. If he wakes, he will shake the world.
- Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is to that which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.
- Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
- Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
- Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
- History is a set of lies agreed upon.
- A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
- On Judgement Day the Doctors will have more lives to answer for than even we Generals.
- Cairo contains a multitude of the finest mosques in the world.
- [to Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand] You are shit in a silk stocking.
- Success is the most convincing talker in the World.
- There is no more good-natured, but also no more gullible people than the German. I never had to sow discord among them. All I had to do was unstretch my nets, and they would run in like a shy game. They choked each other, and they thought they were doing their duty. No other people on earth is more foolish. No lie can be concocted crudely enough: the Germans believe it. For a slogan given to them, they persecuted their countrymen with greater bitterness than their real enemies.
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