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“Lying deep within the French Revolution were the seeds of its own destruction because the concepts of liberty, equality, and fraternity are mutually exclusive. A society can be formed around two of them, but never all three.”

“Caesar was right to cite his good fortune and to appear to believe in it. That is a means of acting on the imagination of others without offending anyone's self-love.”
Napoleon, Caesar's Wars