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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - [Journalism] France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers. - [Mothers] Friendship is but a name. I love no one. - [Friendship] From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle. - [Christ] From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step. - [Sublimity] Generals are not to be too scrupulous. - [Scrupulousness] Give me a man with a good allowance of nose, . . . when I want any good head-work done I choose a man--provided his education has been suitable--with a long nose. - related in "Notes on Noses", p. 43 (ed. 1847) [Noses] Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. - [Glory : Obscurity] Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world. - [Greatness] He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. - [Conquest : Defeat : Fear] History is but a fable agreed upon. - [Fables] I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course. [Fr., Je suis le signet qui marque la page ou la revolution s'est arretee; mais quand je serai mort, elle tournera le feuillet et reprendra sa marche.] - to Count Mole [Revolution] I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets. - [Journalism] I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed. - [Politics] I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier. - in a letter to his brother Louis [Europe] If you (to General Bertrand) do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well; then I did wrong to make you a general. - [Christ] Imagination rules the world. - [Imagination] Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools. - [Impossibility] In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue. - [Justice] Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach. - [Independence] It is the cause, and not the death, that makes the martyr. - [Martyrdom] It was possible to live under the regulations established by Sir George [Cockburn], but now we are tortured to death by pin-point wounds. - according to Lady Malcolm "Diary of St. Helena" [Trifles] Jesus Chris was more than man. - [Christ] Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign. - [Love] Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army. - [Mind] Displaying page 2 of 5 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 [2] 3 4 5
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