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“A mans life is interesting primarily when he has failed. I well know. For its a sign that he tried to surpass himself.”
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“America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilisation.”
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“War is too important to be left to the generals”
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“Fourteen Points? The Good Lord only gave us Ten, and do we abide by those?”
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“War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. ”
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“Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.”
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“Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.”
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“War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.”
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“L'homme qui n'a pas été anarchiste à seize ans est un imbécile. Mais c'en est un autre, s'il l'est encore à quarante.”
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“I don't know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace an interlude during war.”
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“All that I know I learned after I was thirty.”
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“America is the only civilization in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization”
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“War is too serious a matter to entrust to military men.”
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“The right to insult members of the government is inviolable.”
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“Les cimetières sont pleins de gens irremplaçables, qui ont tous été remplacés.”
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“Il est plus facile de faire la guerre que la paix.”
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“Pour prendre une décision, il faut être un nombre impair de personnes, et trois c'est déjà trop.”
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“Le Néant est bien supérieur au Paradis – le Paradis est une amélioration, le Néant, une perfection…”
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“[on the death of President Félix Faure]:
As he stepped into the everlasting Void, he must have felt at home.”
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As he stepped into the everlasting Void, he must have felt at home.”
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