Napoleon Bonaparte Famous Quotes.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Famous Quotes.

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
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A picture is worth a thousand words.
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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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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of coloured ribbon.
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
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A true man hates no one.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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All religions have been made by men.
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Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with
circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
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Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
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An army marches on its stomach.
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even
we generals.
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England is a nation of shopkeepers.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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France has more need of me than I have need of France.
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with
it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the
principles which direct them.
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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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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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I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
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I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a
musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and
harmonies.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life
would be my god.
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede
cannon shots.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
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