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• Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Life, Inspire, Danger

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

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• The tools belong to the man who can use them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Tools, Use

  "For This President, Power Is There for the Taking" by Richard W. Stwvwnson, www.nytimes.com. May 15, 2005.

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• Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Attitude, Circumstances

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• Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Light, Troops

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• The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Punishment, Evil, Together

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• I pay attention only to what people do or say. I never pay attention to what they think.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Thinking, People, Attention

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• The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Affair, Individual

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

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• The worse the man the better the soldier. If soldiers be not corrupt they ought to be made so.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Soldier, He Man

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• Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Character, Men, Delight

  "Memoirs of Napoleon" published by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, (1829-1831).

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• War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Art, War, Lying

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• Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Religious, Despotism, Despicable

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• It is neither holy, Roman or an empire.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Empires, Holy

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• There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once. I see one thing, namely the enemy's main body. I try to crush it, confident that secondary matters will then settle themselves.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Crush, War, Europe

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• True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Life, Sports, Hero

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• In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Art, Fire, Battle

  "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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• Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Soldier, Slave, Chains

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• A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, War, Fighting

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• A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.

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  Enemy, Should, Chiefs

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

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• Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Unhappy, Battle, Fields

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

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• If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.

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  War, Way, Severity

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• Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mothers Day, Mom, Mother And Son

  "Mama Was My Teacher: Growing Up In A Small Southern Town" by Dozier Cade, (p. 77), 2004.

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• The worse the troops the greater the need of artillery.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Troops, Needs

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• Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.

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  Six, World, Forget

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2010). “The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.134, Fireship Press

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• I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

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  Love, Artist, Power

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• The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Bible, Book, Tables

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