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Cruelty can only be justified by necessity.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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  1. Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
  2. Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
  3. Civil liberty depends upon the security of property.
  4. Death may expiate faults, but cannot repair them.
  5. Ces terribles chevaux gris! Comme ils travaillent!
  6. Different subjects and different affairs are arranged in my head as in a cupboard. When I wish to interrupt one train of thought, I shut th…
  7. Calumny, envy, and all revengeful passions appear almost exclusively to direct the actions of men.
  8. Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

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Topics in this quote

  • ethics
  • morality
  • force
  • cruelty
  • necessity

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