Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Precaution Quotes, Whim Quotes

Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.

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There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.

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Parties weaken themselves by their fear of capable men.

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From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

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The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.

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Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.

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A starving army is actually worse than none.

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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

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It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.

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The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war.

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Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

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Half of the people in the world are below average.

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A great European federative system alone can be favourable to the development of civilisation.

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True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.

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Great battles are won with artillery.

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War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.

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There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate

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Be successful! I judge men only by the results of their actions.

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A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.

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