Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Grief Quotes

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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The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

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In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.

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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

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If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.

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Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

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The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.

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Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

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One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

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Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

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Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

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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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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

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The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.

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Great men are never cruel without necessity.

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Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.

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A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.

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