Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

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

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If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

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Passions change, politics are immutable.

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The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot

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The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible.

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The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory

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France has more need of me than I have need of France.

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The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.

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An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.

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A general must be a charlatan.

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After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.

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All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

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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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A man is known by his conduct to his wife, to his family, and to those under him.

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Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.

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A good sketch is better than a long speech.

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Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.

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Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering.

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There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.

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