It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity, that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEYou would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.
More Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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I start out by believing the worst
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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
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Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
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The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.
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Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.
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Nothing is lost as long as courage remains
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Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
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A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets.
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If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds, I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
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One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.
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Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
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To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.
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