Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 11

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• There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Running, Two, Long

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• A starving army is actually worse than none.

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  War, Army, Starving

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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.

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  War, Tired, Men

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• From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

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  Triumph, Events, Outcomes

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• My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what will live forever, is my Civil Code.

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  Memories, Forever, Victory

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• 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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  Destiny, Goal, Ignorant

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.

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  Character, Humility, Ornaments

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• Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

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  Fashion, Clothes, Slave

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• Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom!

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  Men, Slavery, Despicable

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• In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

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  Youth, Illusion

  "History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena" by Charles-Tristan de Montholon, Vol. 3, (p. 187), 1847.

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• Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.

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  Sleep, World, Wakes You

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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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  War, School, Soldier

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• Liberty and equality are magical words.

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  Liberty, Liberty And Equality, Nations

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• True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.

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  Heroism, Rising, True Hero

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.

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  Dog, Humanity, Pet

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• The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.

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  Military, Men, Secret

  "Correspondance Napoleon" edited by Henri Plon, Vol. V, No. 3605, (p. 128), 1861.

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• The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Order

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• One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

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  Men, Ideas, Influence

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

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  May, Forethought, Foresight

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• I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.

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  Grieving, Atoms, Unnecessary

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• True wisdom, in general, consists in energetic determination.

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  Determination, Energetic, True Wisdom

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• Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.

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  Hate, Men, Electric Shock

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• War is the business of barbarians.

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  Peace, War, Barbarians

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• Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.

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  Pain, Men, Evil

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• Secrets travel fast in Paris.

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  Paris, Secret

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