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If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.
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Courage Inspirational Strength
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
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Avoid Nation Peace
As a rule it is circumstances that make men.
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Man Philsophy Rule
Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.
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Attraction Necessary People
There are in the world, two powers. The sword and the spirit. The spirit has always vanquished the sword.
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Power Spirit Weapon World
Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war
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Enough Myself War Win Yourself
You don’t reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
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Intellectual Reason Yourself
There is a joy in danger.
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Danger Joy
A leader is a dealer in hope.
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Deal Hope Leadership
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets
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Fear Power
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.
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Attitude Enjoyment Forgiveness Learn Mindset Oneself Ourselves
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
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Perseverance Victory
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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Control Government Leadership Money Patriot
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
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Fight War
I have seen only you, I have admired only you, I desire only You
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Desire Myself See Yourself
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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Death God Scare
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
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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Fade Forever
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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Decision History Past People
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
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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Fear Man Willing
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
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Ability Opportunity
All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.
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Greatness Man Missing Opportunity
The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.
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Law Philosophy
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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Ability Decision Difficult
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies
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Control Enemy Oneself War Win
You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.
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Herself Stupidity Time Yourself

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