Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.
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A general must be a charlatan.
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Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.
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For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!
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What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.
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When Monarchs abuse the rights with which they have been invested by the confidence of the people, and bring down upon their heads the calamity of war, the people have the right to withdraw their allegiance.
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When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.
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As a rule it is circumstances that make men.
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Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.
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Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.
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A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.
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The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.
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Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation.
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Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied.
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When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day.
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The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.
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There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
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The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.
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Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.
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Alexander, Charlemagne and myself all tried to found an empire on force and we failed. Jesus Christ is building an empire on love, and today there are millions of people who would gladly die for His sake.
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I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.
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In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.
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True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.
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You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.