Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Mother Quotes

My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.

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Act swiftly and vigorously, without 'buts' and 'ifs'.

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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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When Monarchs abuse the rights with which they have been invested by the confidence of the people, and bring down upon their heads the calamity of war, the people have the right to withdraw their allegiance.

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A true man hates no one.

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Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human.

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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

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I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

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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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Opportunities? I make opportunities.

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When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

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The first quality of the commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself to be confused by either good or bad news.

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Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.

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Great ambition is the passion of a great character.

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Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

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War is like government, a matter of tact.

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Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.

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It's not the size of the army but the power within the army.

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If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

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All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.

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