Napoleon Bonaparte quotes
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“Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.”
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“Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.”
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“The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.”
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“Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.”
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“All things proclaim the existence of God.”
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“The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics”
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“A picture is worth a thousand words.”
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“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
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“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”
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“I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get.”
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“You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.”
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“To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.”
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“This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.”
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“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
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“What is history but a fable agreed upon?”
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“Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.”
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“I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations.”
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“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”
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“Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.”
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“Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.”
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“Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.”
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“The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.”
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“The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.”
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“Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.”
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“Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.”
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“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances”
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“Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.”
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“The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.”
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“Victory belongs to the most persevering.”
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“The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.”
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“To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.”
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“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.”
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“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.”
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“A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.”
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“The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.”
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“The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.”
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“The human race is governed by its imagination.”
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“My downfall raises me to infinite heights.”
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“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”
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“The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.”
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“The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother”
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“The word impossible is not in my dictionary.”
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“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”
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“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.”
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“The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.”
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“Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.”
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“The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.”
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“If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.”
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“A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.”
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“I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.”
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“Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.”
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“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.”
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“Ability is nothing without opportunity.”
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“I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself.”
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“When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.”
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“I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets”
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“Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.”
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“Women are nothing but machines for producing children.”
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“There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.”
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“The most dangerous moment comes with victory.”
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“The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.”
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“If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.”
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“Give me an educated mother, I shall promise you the birth of a civilized, educated nation”
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“You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.”
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“In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.”
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“I see only my objective - the obstacles must give way.”
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“If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion”
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“The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.”
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“The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.”
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“Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.”
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“The only victory over love is flight.”
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“The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.”
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“Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.”
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“Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.”
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“Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.”
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“One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.”
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“Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.”
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“The heart may be broken, and the soul remain unshaken.”
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“Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.”
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“To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.”
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“Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.”
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“You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.”
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“How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.”
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“A soul you say? Give my pocketwatch to a savage and he'll think it has a soul.”
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“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
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“The secret of war lies in the communications.”
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“The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.”
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“Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.”
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“Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.”
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“Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.”
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“Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.”
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“There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.”
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“There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.”
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“Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.”
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