Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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• Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.

  

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• Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

  

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• Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.

  

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• I wonder, whether, if I had had any education I should have been more, or less, of a fool than I am. It would have deprived me surely of those exquisite moments of mental flatulence which every now and then inflate the cerebral vacuum with a delicious sense of latent possibilities-of stretching oneself to cosmic limits, and who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

  

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• To imagine that it is possible to perform great military deeds without fighting is just empty dreams.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Fighting
  • Military
  • Dreams