Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Should Quotes

A prince should suspect everything.

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Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles.

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If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.

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It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.

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Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.

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What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?

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International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.

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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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Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.

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There are two merits that glorify a person: being courageous for a man and being virtuous for a woman. Besides these two, there is another merit that glorifies both man and woman: so much loving the homeland to an extent with being ready to sacrifice his/her life, if needed. Turks are such courageous and virtuous people. That is why you can kill a Turk but you can never defeat them.

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It is necessary for the heart to feel as for the body to be fed.

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The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.

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Bloodletting is among the ingredients of political medicine.

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Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?

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Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people's minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes.

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The word impossible is not French.

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Ability is nothing without opportunity.

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Man, not men, is the most important consideration.

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An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.

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All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.

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