Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 17

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• Nothing is so important in war as an undivided command.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Important, Command

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• Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where a surprise is possible. By this means you will have time to unite all your forces before he can attack you.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Mean, Sight

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Time, Food, Men

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• A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Men, Littles

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• A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fall, Land, Noise

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• Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wine, Victory, Needs

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• Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Crowds, Artillery

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• Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Love, Kissing, Fire

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• A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Kings, Sometimes, Crime

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

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• France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Leaving, Enemy

  Statement at Paris, January 23, 1814.

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• England is a nation of shopkeepers.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Business, Insulting, England

  Quoted in Barry E. O'Meara, Napoleon in Exile (1822). The Pennsylvania Gazette, 20 Aug. 1794, prints "Barrere's Report of the Naval Action of the 1st of June" to the National Convention of France, 16 June. Included in this report is the sentence: "Let Pitt then boast of this victory of his nation of shop-keepers (national boutiquiere.)" The author was revolutionary and legislator Bertrand Barrere. See Adam Smith 7; Josiah Tucker 1

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• In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Simplest

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• In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Country, Political, Inspire

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• True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Character, Rude, Weakness

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Doe, Fear Of Death

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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.

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  Retirement, War, Yield

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• The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Leadership, Unity, Disappear

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• Unavailable wars are always just.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War

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• History is a myth that men agree to believe.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Believe, Men, History

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• History is the invention of historians.

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  History, Invention, Historian

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• Medicines are only fit for old people.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Medicine, People, Medical

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