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From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.
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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but ...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
I base my calculations on the expectation that luck will be against me
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
We begin to see, therefore, the importance of selecting our environment with the greatest of care, b...
NAPOLEON HILL
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
NAPOLEON HILL
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
The French complain of everything, and always.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them ...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
The art of government is not to let me grow stale.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Public instruction should be the first object of government.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE