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One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Fight War
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.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Greatness Man Missing Opportunity
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets
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Fear Power
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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Excellence Kill People Poor Quiet Religion Rich
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
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
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Promise Success World Yourself
Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.
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Greatness Human Music
In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.
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Greatness Ourselves Time
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind
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Best Body Mindset Quiet
The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.
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Law Philosophy
To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.
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Deep Himself Man Understand World
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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Decision History Past People
Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.
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Courage Growth Hope Love
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
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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Ability Decision Difficult

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