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Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.


Napoleon Bonaparte

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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Chief of the Army.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anythi...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE To exraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Death is nothing; but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Truth alone wounds.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Occupation is the scythe of time.
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