If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTEAs 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.
More Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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An army marches on its stomach.
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Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.
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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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I start out by believing the worst
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Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.
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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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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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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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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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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
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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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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 politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
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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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When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.
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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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Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.
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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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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind
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