History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEIt is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity, that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEWe must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEThere are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEGive me enough medals and I’ll win you any war
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEA picture is worth a thousand words.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEI 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.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEConquests will come and go but Delambre’s work will endure.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEThere shall be no Alps.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEIf you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTETo 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.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEAll 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 BONAPARTENever interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEMen are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEWar is the business of barbarians.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEGlory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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