Ability is of little account without opportunity.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTELet France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
More Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
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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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A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
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The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
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What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.
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I 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.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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I know he’s a good general, but is he lucky?
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Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.
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Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.
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The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.
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