Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 11

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• The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Determination, Soldier, Endurance

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• In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!

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  Art, Military, War

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• A starving army is actually worse than none.

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  War, Army, Starving

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• Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.

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  Memories, Exercise, Men

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

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• A man is known by his conduct to his wife, to his family, and to those under him.

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  Men, Wife, Supervision

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• The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.

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  Religious, Father, Military

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• What is history but a fable agreed upon?

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  Time, Memories, Writing History

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• We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.

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  Failure, May

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• War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

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  War, Order, Awful

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• It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.

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  Real, Curiosity, Matter

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. V), 1916.

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• You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men

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• In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

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  Shows, Our Time, Conception

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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.

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  Running, Two, Long

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• Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

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  Children, Women, Army

  "The St. Helena Journal of General Baron Gourgaud, 1815-1818 : Being a Diary written at St. Helena during a part of Napoleon's Captivity", translated by Norman Edwards, 1932.

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• A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.

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  Compass, Vessel

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• The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.

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  Friendship, Men, Favors

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• I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it

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  Mistaken

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• Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

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  War, Humorous, Doctors

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• Space we can recover; time never.

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  Regret, Procrastination, Space

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• Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

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  Taken, Medicine, Medical

  Napoleon in Exile (Barry O'Meara)

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• There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.

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  Murder, Rich, Poor

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• Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.

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  Powerful, Yield, Public Opinion

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• We are either kings or pawns of men

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  Kings, Men, Pawns

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• There is a joy in danger.

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  Joy, Danger

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

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• Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.

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  Agriculture, People, Support

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