When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTETake time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.
More Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.
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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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An army marches on its stomach.
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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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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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Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances
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You don’t reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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I have seen only you, I have admired only you, I desire only You
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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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If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
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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.
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There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
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