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I know he’s a good general, but is he lucky?

Napoleon Bonaparte

If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds, I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Art Avoid Fate Mindset Myself Risk War
There is a joy in danger.
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Danger Joy
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
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Family Myself People Reading World
Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.
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History Liberty Revolution
Nothing is lost as long as courage remains
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Courage Inspirational Lost
Conquests will come and go but Delambre’s work will endure.
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Art Endurance Forever
Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.
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Courage Growth Hope Love
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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Ability Imagination Limitation Love Philosophy Space
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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Control Government Leadership Money Patriot
I know he’s a good general, but is he lucky?
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Fate Goodness Himself Myself
If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.
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History Past Reading
There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
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Death Law Safety
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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Greatness Man Missing Opportunity
The world suffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.
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Bad Goodness People Silence Suffering Violence World
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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Fade Forever
Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.
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Judgement Man Memories Ordinary
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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Courage Death Suffering
An army marches on its stomach.
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Control Rule
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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Control Enemy Oneself War Win
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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Death God Scare
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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End Greatness Quality Success Wisdom
Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.
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Burn Design Greatness Light Man
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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Greedy Hands Material Myself World
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
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Deep History Lie
The only victory over love is flight.
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Deep Love Mental Victory
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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Action Independent Yourself
There shall be no Alps.
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