Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Real Quotes, Curiosity Quotes

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.

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I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding the helm; no matter how strong my hands, the sudden and numerous waves were stronger still, and I was wise enough to yield to them rather than resist them obstinately and make the ship founder. Thus I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances.

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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

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Men are led by trifles.

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It is with artillery that war is made.

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Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

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Half of the people in the world are below average.

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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

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When I give a minister an order, I leave it to him to find the means to carry it out.

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Great ambition is the passion of a great character.

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This accession of territory affirms forever the power of the United States, and I have given England a maritime rival who sooner or later will humble her pride.

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Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

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

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

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The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with the supreme magistracy.

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There is no strength without justice.

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In Russia there are no roads - only areas.

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History is the invention of historians.

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You cannot treat with all the world at once.

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A starving army is actually worse than none.

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