Napoleon Bonaparte on history
“If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.”
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The only victory over love is flight.
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Napoleon BonaparteNapoleon Bonaparte The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies
Napoleon BonaparteNapoleon Bonaparte There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
Napoleon BonaparteNapoleon Bonaparte A picture is worth a thousand words.
Napoleon BonaparteNapoleon Bonaparte I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers
Napoleon BonaparteNapoleon Bonaparte Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.
Napoleon BonaparteNapoleon Bonaparte Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon BonaparteNapoleon Bonaparte The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.
Napoleon BonaparteNapoleon Bonaparte Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon BonaparteNapoleon Bonaparte Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.
Napoleon BonaparteNapoleon Bonaparte The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.
Napoleon BonaparteNapoleon Bonaparte History is written by the winners.
Napoleon BonaparteNapoleon Bonaparte Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon BonaparteNapoleon Bonaparte 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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Friedrich SchillerFriedrich Schiller The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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Betty FriedanBetty Friedan I never set out to write a book to change women’s lives, to change history. It’s like, ‘Who, me?’ Yes, me. I did it. And I’m not that different from other women. Maybe my power and glory was that I could speak my truth as a woman and it was the truth of every woman.
Betty FriedanBetty Friedan The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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