One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves; one must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTENever tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
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I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get.
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The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.
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When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.
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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
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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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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
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It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity, that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.
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History is written by the winners.
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.
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A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
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