Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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You think you are too intelligent to believe in God. I am not like you.
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In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.
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High politic is only common sense applied to great things.
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The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.
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The sovereignty of the people is inalienable.
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It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.
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All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.
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The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.
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The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.
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Jesus Christ was more than man.
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My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.
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A King should sacrifice the best affections of his heart for the good of his country; no sacrifice should be above his determination.
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To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion.
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The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno.
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Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.
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France needs nothing so much to promote her regeneration as good mothers.
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The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army. . . . The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide.
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While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper.
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The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory.
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There are two merits that glorify a person: being courageous for a man and being virtuous for a woman. Besides these two, there is another merit that glorifies both man and woman: so much loving the homeland to an extent with being ready to sacrifice his/her life, if needed. Turks are such courageous and virtuous people. That is why you can kill a Turk but you can never defeat them.
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The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.
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Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies.
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The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory.
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Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.