A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTENapoleon 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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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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You don’t reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
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It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity, that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.
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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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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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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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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
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There is a joy in danger.
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The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.
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There are in the world, two powers. The sword and the spirit. The spirit has always vanquished the sword.
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The only victory over love is flight.
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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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