Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Should Have Quotes, History Quotes

If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

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Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.

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Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

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Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.

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I wish I could take a raincheck on June 18.1815

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We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.

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This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. 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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In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

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Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

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History is a set of lies agreed upon.

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An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.

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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

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To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.

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An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.

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No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment.

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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

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Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

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True wisdom, in general, consists in energetic determination.

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