Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 13

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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 start out by believing the worst

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  Believe, Worst

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• The first quality of the commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself to be confused by either good or bad news.

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  Confused, Quality, News

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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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• 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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• 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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• Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.

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  Stupidity, Limits

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• An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

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  Support, Aristocracy, Monarchy

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• Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

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  Discovery, Slave, Printing

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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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• When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

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  Mean, Enemy

  "Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts" collected and published by Cte. A. G. de Liancourt; edited by James Alexander Manning, (p. 30), 1848.

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• The law, that is what makes men stay honest.

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  Men, Law, Honest

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

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  Vegetables, Revolution

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

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  Power, Weakness, Arrogant

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• I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.

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  God, Religious, Believe

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• In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

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  Hands, Order, Accepted

  "Constructing Futures: Industry leaders and futures thinking in construction". Book by Paul Chan, Rachel Cooper, p. 105, December 8, 2010.

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• Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space.

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  Christian, Jesus, Men

  Attributed in "The Divinity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ" by Henry Parry Liddon, (pp. 147-148), 1868.

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• Secrets travel fast in Paris.

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  Paris, Secret

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• Be successful! I judge men only by the results of their actions.

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  Successful, Men, Judging

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• Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

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  Health, Exercise, Air

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• The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

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  Bible, Book, Biblical

  The Watchtower magazine, May 15, 1992.

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