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.
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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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
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Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.
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Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.
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Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.
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Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.
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I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets
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Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war
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Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
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If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
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You don’t reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
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The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.
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Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
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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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