Napoleon

Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

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Leaders deal in hope.

Napoleon

Liberty and equality are magical words.

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Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one’s friends with the idea that they may turn into one’s enemies. He should have said, with everyone.

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Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

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Man is entitled by birthright to a share of the earth’s produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence.

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Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.

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Man will believe anything, as long as it’s not in the bible.

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Mankind’s worst enemy is fear of work

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Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

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