Conquests will come and go but Delambre’s work will endure.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEChina is a sleeping giant; let him sleep, for if he wakes, he will shake the World.
More Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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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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The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.
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A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
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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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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
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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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In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.
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I start out by believing the worst
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Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.
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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
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If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.
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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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Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
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