Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEReligion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
More Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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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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We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.
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China is a sleeping giant; let him sleep, for if he wakes, he will shake the World.
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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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In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.
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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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To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.
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An army marches on its stomach.
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
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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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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
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