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Oh, to be seventy again!
Death is an eternal sleep.
This time it will be a long one.
Common sense is the genius of mankind.
He who reckons ten friends has not one.
It is far easier to make war than peace.
Nothing falsifies history more than logic.
Every soil does not produce every material.
All the great pleasures of life are silent.
It is easier to make war than to make peace.
All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
What is said behind my back is said to my ass.
War is too serious to be entrusted to generals
The greatest truths are commonly the simplest.
You hold in your hands the future of the world.
Live to learn . . . forget . . . and learn again.
Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs.
The best time of love, is when one goes up the stairs.
War is a series of disasters which result in a winner.
The blood of criminals fertilises the soil of liberty.
War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.
Despotism and freedom of the press cannot exist together.
The great recipe for success is to work, and always work.
If I had not smoked I should have been dead ten years ago.
War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.
The thought of eternity consoles for the shortness of life.
Generals cannot be trusted with anything, not even with war.
The world belongs to optimists; the pessimists are only spectators.
Americans have no capacity for abstract thought, and make bad coffee.
Great ability without discretion comes almost invariably to a tragic end
People think too historically. They are always living half in a cemetery.
The doctrine of Christ enjoins men, all brothers in His eyes, to love one another.
When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves he isn't a man of action.
My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.
Liberty is the right to discipline ourselves in order not to be disciplined by others
Do not be afraid of enthusiasm. You need it. You can do nothing effectively without it.
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.
It is worse that a crime, it is a blunder. [Fr., C'est plus qu'un crime, c'est une faute.]
I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.
Education is the process by which one mind forms another mind, and one heart, another heart.
The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection.
The spirit of revolution, the spirit of insurrection, is a spirit radically opposed to liberty
The pens which write against disarmament are made with the same steel from which guns are made.
Modesty is a shining light; it prepares the mind to receive knowledge, and the heart for truth.
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane .A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix. It is far easier to make war than to make peace.
In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.
Whoever attempts to suppress liberty of conscience finishes some day by wishing for the Inquisition.
After our humiliating loss of Alsace-Lorraine, France needs a victory to restore pride in the nation.
There are only two perfectly useless things in this world. One is an appendix and the other is Poincaré.