Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 17

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• I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, My Family, Treats

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• If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Istanbul, Would Be, Earth

  "Istanbul: City of Majesty at the Crossroads of the World" edited by Thomas F. Madden, Penguin Random House, November 7, 2014.

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• The greatest danger occurs at the moment of victory

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Victory, Moments, Danger

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• It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mistake, Men, Mirrors

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

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• Medicines are only fit for old people.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Medicine, People, Medical

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• Character is victory organized.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Character, Victory, Thrive

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• History is the invention of historians.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  History, Invention, Historian

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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.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Agriculture, People, Support

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• Collective crimes incriminate no one.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Crime, Collectives

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

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• The keys of a fortress are always well worth the retirement of the garrison when it is resolved to yield only on those conditions. On this principle it is always wiser to grant an honorable capitulation to a garrison which has made a vigorous resistance than to risk an assault.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Retirement, War, Yield

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• The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Art, Jobs, Power

  Letter to Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, (August 9, 1796); in "Correspondance de Napoléon Ier", Vol. 1, (p. 532), 1858.

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• If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Men, Political

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• There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Courage, Motivation, Fear

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• Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Veterans Day, War, Work

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• I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Europe, Want, Currency

  Letter to Louis Bonaparte, 6 May 1807

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• Alexander, Charlemagne and myself all tried to found an empire on force and we failed. Jesus Christ is building an empire on love, and today there are millions of people who would gladly die for His sake.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Jesus, Inspiration, People

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• There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Knowing, Talent

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

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• Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Names, Empires, Revolution

  "Quotations for Special Occasions". Book by Maud Van Buren, 1937.

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• So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Thinking, Police, Knows

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• Vengeance has no foresight.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Vengeance, Foresight

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• Generals are not to be too scrupulous.

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• They wanted me to be a Washington.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Political, Term Limits, Politics

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• I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Battle, Knows

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• Man will believe anything, as long as it's not in the bible.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Believe, Men, Long

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• My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sweet, Grief, Heart

  "Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 1796-1812" edited by Henry Foljambe Hall, 1901.

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