Best Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte (Top 10)
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If you build an army of 100 lions and their leader is a dog, in any fight, the lions will die like a dog. But if you build an army of 100 dogs and their leader is a lion, all dogs will fight as a lion
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If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.
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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
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The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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More Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.
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War is the business of barbarians.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
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To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
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Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
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There are times when a battle decides everything, and there are times when the most insignificant thing can decide the outcome of a battle
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
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Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.
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Imagination rules the world.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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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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Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.
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There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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The most dangerous moment comes with victory.
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An army marches on its stomach.
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England is a nation of shopkeepers.
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The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
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Vengeance has no foresight.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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A true man hates no one.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.
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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.
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Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
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Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.
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As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.
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Over-preparation is the foe of inspiration.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
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Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.
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Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.
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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
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Victory belongs to the most persevering.
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The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.
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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
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There are two kinds of fidelity - that of dogs and that of cats; and you gentlemen, have the fidelity of cats who never leave the house
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.
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True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.
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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
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Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.
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I made all my generals out of mud.
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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.
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Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
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The word impossible is not in my dictionary.
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.
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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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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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