Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

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Victory belongs to the most persevering.

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The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.

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Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.

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Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength

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Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

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If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion

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It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

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Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

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Envy is a declaration of inferiority.

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