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But if you have a spark of conscience... Amuse yourself with women like my wife. There, you're within you're rights. They know what you want of them. They are armed against you by the same experience of debauchery. But to promise an innocent girl to marry her... To deceive, to abduct her. Don't you understand that's as despicable as beating an old woman or a child?
— Success does not depend on positions or weapons nor even the number of men.
— Then on what?
— It depends on the feeling within me, within him, within every soldier. Why did we lose at Austerlitz? Positions? Nonsense. That's not the point. We had no right to be there. We were in a hurry to leave the battlefield. What will happen to us tomorrow? To me, tomorrow will be simple. 100,000 Russian soldiers and 100,000 French soldiers will meet in combat. Those 200,000 are going to fight. The side that is fiercest and spares itself least is the side that will win. Tomorrow, whatever the circumstances, we are certain to win.
