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Ability
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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains
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Ambition
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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 principals which direct them.
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Argument & Debate
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I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.
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Bravery
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Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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Caution
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The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
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Chance
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Chance is the providence of adventurers.
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Character
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Character is victory organized.
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Christianity
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Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
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Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.
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Competition
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.
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Conflict
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The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
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Conscience
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The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.
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Constitution
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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Control
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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I have only one counsel for you -- be master.
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The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
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The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.
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It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed.
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Crime
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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Death
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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Decisions
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Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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