Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 12

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• To extraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Circumstances, Remedy

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• I start out by believing the worst

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  Believe, Worst

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• If you want to get on in this world make many promises, but don't keep them.

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  Success, Promise, World

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• With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

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  Courage, Bravery, Risk

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

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• Speeches pass away, but acts remain.

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  Power, Passing Away, Speech

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• In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior talents and resolution.

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  War, Judging, Talent

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• France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

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  Character, Men, France

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• It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.

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  War, Enemy, Wish

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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• We are either kings or pawns of men

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  Kings, Men, Pawns

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• A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.

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  Men, Needs, Consideration

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

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• Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia.

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  Army, Men, People

  "Précis des guerres de César, écrit à Sainte-Hélène sous la dictée de l'empereur" edited by Comte Marchand, (p. 237), 1836.

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• I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

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  Lying, Government Lies, Knowing

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• In war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence.

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  War, Enemy, Trouble

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• When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.

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  Enemy

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• I know men, and I tell you, Jesus is more than a man. Comparison is impossible between Him and any other human being who ever lived, because He was the Son of God.

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  Jesus, Son, Men

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• Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it can be justified. It certainly originates in that species of fear which we denominate poltroonery. For what claim can that man have to courage who trembles at the frowns of fortunes? True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life in whatever shape they may challenge him to combat.

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  Suicide, Men, Understanding

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• In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.

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  Love, War, Together

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• A beautiful woman like eyes, and a good heart; One is a beautiful thing, and other treasures.

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  Beautiful, Heart, Eye

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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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• Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.

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  Stupidity, Limits

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• Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

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  Vegetables, Revolution

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• I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates, Plato, Moses, and Mohammed I do not think there is such a one. All religions owe their origin to man.

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  Atheist, Plato, Believe

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• The object of war is victory, the object of victory is conquest, and the object of conquest is occupation.

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  War, Victory, Occupation

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• To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

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  Acceptance, Power, Men

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

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• Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power.

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  Power, Weakness, Arrogant

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