Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Running Quotes, Army Quotes

What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do you imagine that I triumph in Italy in order to aggrandise the pack of lawyers who form the Directory, and men like Carnot and Barras? What an idea!

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To be believed make the truth unbelievable.

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I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.

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Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.

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Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

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Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage.

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In war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence.

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A leader is a dealer in hope.

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Called to the throne by the voice of the people, my maxim has always been: A career open to talent without distinction of birth. It is this system of equality for which the European oligarchy detests me

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

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I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.

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I hope before long to press you in my arms and shall shower on you a million burning kisses as under the Equator.

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A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him

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Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.

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Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.

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The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.

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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

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Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

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In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

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The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.

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