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I have seen only yoU, I have admired only yoU, I desire only You.
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There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.
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Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
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.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.
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I haven't known 6 days of happiness in my life.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.
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How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!
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Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.
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Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.
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To command, you must first of all speak to the eyes.
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Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.
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War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts.
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From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.
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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.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
To negotiate is not to do as one likes.
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Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
Napoleon Bonaparte