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I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.
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It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.
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Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.
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I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.
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In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!
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Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.
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Friendship is but a name. I love no one.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind.
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A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him.
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Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.
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In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.
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The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.
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The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.
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The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.
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Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.
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Leaders have to be dealers in hope.
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A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.
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One bad general is worth two good ones.
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A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.
Napoleon Bonaparte