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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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"The time has come to put an end to the fratricidal war and to recover at last peace and accord."

"I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one."

"If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war."
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