Napoleon Bonaparte quotes - page 13

Waterloo will wipe out the memory of my forty victories; but that which nothing can wipe out is my Civil Code. That will live forever. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
If I had succeeded, I would have been the greatest man known to history. View quote
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There is no subordination with empty stomachs. View quote
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God is on the side with the best artillery. View quote
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Who saves his country violates no law. View quote
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. View quote
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In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods. View quote
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Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack. View quote
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. View quote
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A leader is a dealer in hope. View quote
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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. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view. View quote
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An Army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions. View quote
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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. View quote
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The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable. View quote
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Respect the burden. View quote
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At the beginning of a campaign it is important to consider whether or not to move forward; but when one has taken the offensive it is necessary to maintain it to the last extremity. View quote
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In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. View quote
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My waking thoughts are all of thee. View quote
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It is not that addresses at the opening of a battle make the soldiers brave. The old veterans scarcely hear them, and recruits forget them at the first boom of the cannon. View quote
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The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
Bonaparte robs a nation of its independence: deposed as emperor, he is sent into exile, where the world's anxiety still does not think him safely enough imprisoned, guarded by the Ocean. View quote
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He worked systematically to transform the people's earlier ardor for liberty into a passion for military glory and plunder. View quote
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Victories will be won, one of these days, without cannon, and without bayonets. View quote
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The tiger has arrived at Gap. View quote
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