Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

Better to have an open enemy, than hidden friends.

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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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Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

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Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.

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

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You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them

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A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.

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

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I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.

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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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I have only one counsel for you - be master.

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The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.

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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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In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power.

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The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.

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Secrets travel fast in Paris.

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In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.

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All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

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Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.

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