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Great men are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted


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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE All religions have been made by men.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The army is the true nobility of our country.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE I have only one counsel for you - be master.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE England is a nation of shopkeepers.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE France has more need of me than I have need of France.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE A Constitution should be short and obscure.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from m...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the g...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Men are lead by trifles.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, t...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The only victory over love is flight.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Character is victory organized.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Let the path be open to talent.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Secrets travel fast in Paris.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Vengeance has no foresight.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Respect the burden.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Who saves his country violates no law.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The most dangerous moment comes with victory.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE I made all my generals out of mud.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE A true man hates no one.
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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Medicines are only fit for old people.
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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE 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 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'.
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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 There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE My downfall raises me to infinite heights.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.
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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Chance is the providence of adventurers.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes be...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The human race is governed by its imagination.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Imagination rules the world.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or v...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear.
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NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your lo...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Ability is of little account without opportunity.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE I have only one counsel for you -- be master.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE It is not enough to give orders they must be obeyed.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too ...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE A Constitution should be short and obscure
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, t...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The most dangerous moment comes with victory.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE In today's complex and fast-moving world, what we need even more than foresight or hindsight is insi...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE There are times when a battle decides everything, and there are times when the most insignificant th...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE It is the cause and not merely the death that makes the martyr.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Men are moved by only two things: fear and self-interest.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Providence is always on the side of the last reserve
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE There are two levers for moving men: interest and fear.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The only conquests which are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE [Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are ...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE An Army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE What is history but a fable agreed upon?
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE History is a set of lies agreed upon.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or v...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to dr...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE A leader is a dealer in hope.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Victory belongs to the most persevering.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and ...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will alw...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people,...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abando...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE 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 go...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE War is the business of barbarians.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, bo...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, t...
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 Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being usef...
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.
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