Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Hero Quotes, Heart Quotes

Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.

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Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.

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Power is founded upon opinion.

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How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.

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The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot

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Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.

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The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible.

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Battles are lost or won in 15 minutes

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I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute.

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The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

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The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

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I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.

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Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

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A soul you say? Give my pocketwatch to a savage and he'll think it has a soul.

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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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In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

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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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War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.

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My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.

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A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it.

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