Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
International incidents should not govern foreign policy, but foreign policy, incidents
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
Men are lead by trifles.
We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.
We often get in quicker by the back door than by the front
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.
Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.
In war, three quarters turns on personal character and relations the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.
Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them
A true man hates no one.
It is the cause and not the death that makes the martyr
Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
When I want any, good head work done I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.
The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.
It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.
Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement
If I had believed in a God of rewards and punishments, I might have lost courage in battle
Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus - Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported
War is the business of barbarians.
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness
A revolution is an axiom backed by bayonets.
Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.
War is not at all such a difficult art as people think.... In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
Do you know what amazes me more than anything else The impotence of force to organize anything.
Circumstances - what are circumstances I make circumstances.
The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.
There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.
War - the trade of barbarians, and the art of bringing the greatest physical force to bear on a single point.
Great men are meteors that burn so that the earth may be lighted.
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