Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Past Quotes, Magic Quotes

What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

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Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

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A well-composed song strikes the mind and softens the feelings, and produces a greater effect than a moral work, which convinces our reason, but does not warm our feelings, nor effect the slightest alteration in our habits

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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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Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

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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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To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

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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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We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness.

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He is almost a statesman. He lies well.

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Good infantry is without doubt the sinews of an army; but if it has to fight a long time against very superior artillery, it will become demoralized and will be destroyed.

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Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.

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Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.

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Man will believe anything, as long as it's not in the bible.

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A beautiful woman like eyes, and a good heart; One is a beautiful thing, and other treasures.

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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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War is the business of barbarians.

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Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.

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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

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The life of a citizen is the property of his country.

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