Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Stars Quotes, War Quotes

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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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

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Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

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Where the Government is weak, military sway prevails.

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The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

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We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

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A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.

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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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Better live a King, than a Prince.

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In Russia there are no roads - only areas.

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Men are never attached to you by favours.

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People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

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I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates, Plato, Moses, and Mohammed I do not think there is such a one. All religions owe their origin to man.

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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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To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

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The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.

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Adversity is the midwife of genius

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It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king.

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

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