There are in the world, two powers. The sword and the spirit. The spirit has always vanquished the sword.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEConquests will come and go but Delambre’s work will endure.
More Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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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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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.
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Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Conquests will come and go but Delambre’s work will endure.
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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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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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I know he’s a good general, but is he lucky?
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When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.
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To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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