Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEWhen 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.
More Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
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A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets.
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The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.
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Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.
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We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.
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There shall be no Alps.
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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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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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A picture is worth a thousand words.
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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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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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Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
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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 in the world, two powers. The sword and the spirit. The spirit has always vanquished the sword.
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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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I know he’s a good general, but is he lucky?
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The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.
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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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In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
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Conquests will come and go but Delambre’s work will endure.
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Victory belongs to the most persevering.
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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