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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.

Napoleon Bonaparte

As a rule it is circumstances that make men.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

Man Philsophy Rule
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
Imagination governs the world.
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Imagination Rule World
The only victory over love is flight.
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Deep Love Mental Victory
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
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Defeat Fear Himself
There is a joy in danger.
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Danger Joy
You don’t reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
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Intellectual Reason Yourself
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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Excellence Kill People Poor Quiet Religion Rich
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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Greatness Need Seek
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
Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
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Enemy Wrong Yourself
In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.
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Greatness Ourselves Time
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
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Fight War
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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Freedom History Man Poet Writing
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
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Easy Man Vice Virtue
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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Decision History Past People

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