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Don't Think Of Yourself As Indispensable Or Infallible. The Cemeteries Of The World Are Full Of Indispensable Men.

The Desire Of Privilege And The Taste Of Equality Are The Dominant And Contradictory Passions Of The French Of All Times.

Genius Sometimes Consists Of Knowing When To Stop.

To Govern Is Always To Choose Among Disadvantages.

Old France, Weighed Down With History, Prostrated By Wars And Revolutions, Endlessly Vacillating From Greatness To Decline, But Revived, Century After Century, By The Genius Of Renewal!