Napoleon Bonaparte quotes - page 14

I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
Conscience is the most sacred thing among men.
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Religious wars are basically people killing each other over who has the better imaginary friend.
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What is a throne? - a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state.
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One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms.
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Dante has not deigned to take his inspiration from any other. He has wished to be himself, himself alone; in a word, to create.
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I do not care to play the part of Monk; I will not play it myself, and I do not choose that others shall do so.
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The happiest days of my life were from sixteen to twenty, during the semestres, when I used to go about, as I have told you I should wish to do, from one restaurateur to another, living moderately, and having a lodging for which I paid three louis a month. They were the happiest days of my life. I was always so much occupied, that I may say I never was truly happy upon the throne.
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To be able to go about incognito in London and other parts of England, to the restaurateurs, with a friend, to dine in public at the expense of half a guinea or a guinea, and listen to the conversation of the company.
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The issue of a battle is the result of an instant, of a thought.
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Napoleon, far more Italian than French, Italian by race, by instinct, imagination, and souvenir, considers in his plan the future of Italy, and, on casting up the final accounts of his reign, we find that the net profit is for Italy and the net loss is for France. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run.
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Washington and Bonaparte emerged from the womb of democracy: both of them born to liberty, the former remained faithful to her, the latter betrayed her.
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Tomorrow, Napoleon will be under our ramparts.
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The Corsican ogre has just landed at the Juan Gulf.
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Give them a whiff of grapeshot.
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Able was I ere I saw Elba.
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Bonaparte has advanced with great strides, but he will never enter Paris.
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The monster slept at Grenoble.
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I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.
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His Imperial and Royal Majesty entered his palace at the Tuileries last night in the midst of his faithful subjects. (Napoleon Bonaparte)
At the battle of Waterloo, when Napoleon's cavalry had charged again and again upon the unbroken squares of British infantry, at last they were giving up the attempt, and going off in disorder, when some of the officers in mere vexation and complete despair fired their pistols at those solid squares.
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At dinner, he told us that he was much better, and we pointed out to him, about this, that, for some time however, he had not been out, and had been working eight, ten, or twelve hours a day. "That is just it," said he: "work is my element; I was born and made for it. I have found the limits of my legs; I have found the limits of my eyes; but I have never been able to find the limits of my labour."
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The cannibal has left his lair.
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The tyrant has crossed Lyons.
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