You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEConquests will come and go but Delambre’s work will endure.
More Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.
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The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory
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The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.
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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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A true man hates no one.
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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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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.
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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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Imagination governs the world.
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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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There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
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Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.
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Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.
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