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Napoleon Bonaparte

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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 go...
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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.
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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.
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To exraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies.
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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.
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Truth alone wounds.
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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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