Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEOne must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves; one must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.
More Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
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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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Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
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The only victory over love is flight.
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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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There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind
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The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.
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Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.
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Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.
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Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.
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Napoleon 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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When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.
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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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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.
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