Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

I would rather have a general who was lucky than one who was good.

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Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.

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When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!

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The heart of a statesman should be in his head.

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You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.

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A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.

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The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.

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The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.

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In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.

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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

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France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers.

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It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.

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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

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Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.

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Men are ruled by toys.

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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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Leaders deal in hope.

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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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There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

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The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.

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