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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

Napoleon Bonaparte

There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
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Death Law Safety
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
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Fight War
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
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Family Myself People Reading World
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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Generosity Hands Money Patriot
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
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Choice God Life Myself Religion Sun
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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Art Avoid Fate Mindset Myself Risk War
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
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Future Goodness Mom
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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Death Deep Reason
The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.
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Honesty Poor
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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Greedy Hands Material Myself World
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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Freedom History Man Poet Writing
History is written by the winners.
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History Winner Writing
If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.
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History Past Reading
There is a joy in danger.
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Danger Joy
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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Daily Death Defeat Live
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.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Ambition Bad Character Goodness Greatness Passion Principle

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

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