Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Dirty Quotes, Home Quotes

But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen. [Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]

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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

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A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.

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Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.

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Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.

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Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.

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How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

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The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.

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A Constitution should be short and obscure.

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Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle at which the least manoeuvre is decisive and gives superiority, as one drop of water causes overflow.

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Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.

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It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.

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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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I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.

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We are nothing but by the law.

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All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.

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My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.

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A new-born Government must shine and astonish - the moment it loses its éclat it falls.

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I drink Champagne when I win, to celebrate...and I drink Champagne when I lose, to console myself.

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France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.

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