Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 23

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• There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sublime, Steps, Ridiculous

  Quoted in D. G. De Pradt, Histoire de l'Ambassade dans le Grand-Duche de Varsovie en 1812 (1815) See Thomas Paine 30; Warton 1

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• France will always be a great nation.

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  France, Nations, Great Nations

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

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• An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Army, Doomed

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• The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.

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  War, Needs, Navigation

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• It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Oddities

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

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• Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

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  Taken, Army, Men

  "Napoleon's Cavalry and its Leaders". Book by David Johnson, 1978.

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• In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality.

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  War, Character, Reality

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

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• Human life is the only thing that takes care of itself.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Care, Life Is

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• Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.

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  Inclination

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

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• Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Beach, Islands, Independence

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• Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.

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  War, Distance, Battle

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• I love a brave soldier who has undergone the baptism of fire.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, War, Fire

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• Great battles are won with artillery.

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  War, Battle, Artillery

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• It is cowardice to commit suicide.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Suicide, Cowardice, Commit

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• A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been deceived. Laplace saw no question from its true point of view; he sought subtleties everywhere; had only doubtful ideas, and finally carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Work, Math, Ideas

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• There are two merits that glorify a person: being courageous for a man and being virtuous for a woman. Besides these two, there is another merit that glorifies both man and woman: so much loving the homeland to an extent with being ready to sacrifice his/her life, if needed. Turks are such courageous and virtuous people. That is why you can kill a Turk but you can never defeat them.

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  Sacrifice, Men, Two

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• In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it.

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  War, Order, Overcoming

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

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• A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.

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  Men, Important, Needs

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• I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Retirement, Want, Noise

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• Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.

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  Men, Brave, Deeds

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• The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory

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  Military, Brave, Victory

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• Unity of command is essential to the economy of time. Warfare in the field was like a siege: by directing all one's force to a single point a breach might be made, and the equilibrium of opposition destroyed.

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  War, Unity, Might

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• Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  People, Absurd, Sovereignty

  "Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts" collected and published by Cte. A. G. de Liancourt; edited by James Alexander Manning, (p. 246), 1848.

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• A nation recruits men more easily than it can retrieve its honour.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Recruit, Honour

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• Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.

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  Precaution, Whim, Multitudes

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

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