Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 24

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• From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Issues, Important, Triumph

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

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• It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Army, Victory

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Art, Government, Let Me

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• Battles are lost or won in 15 minutes

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Battle, Lost, Minutes

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• Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Men, Hair

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• All things proclaim the existence of God.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Existence, God Exists, Existence Of God

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• To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Government, Ordinary, Mark

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

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• In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Running, Long, Historical

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• It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Law, Monetary System, Nations

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• A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction.
  You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Men, Order

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• God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sick, World, Way

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• What is a throne? - a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state- I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public - people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Dirty, Home, Army

  Statement to the Senate, 1814.

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• Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Military, Army, Boys

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• A prince should suspect everything.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Should, Suspects

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

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• When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Should, Knows

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• Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Leadership, Army, Society

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• At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Army, Simplicity

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• History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, War, Past

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• Democracy, if it is reasonable, limits itself to giving everyone an equal opportunity to compete and to obtain.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Opportunity, Giving

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• But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen.
  [Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Dirty, Home, Son

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• The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wise, Wisdom, Educational

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• I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding the helm; no matter how strong my hands, the sudden and numerous waves were stronger still, and I was wise enough to yield to them rather than resist them obstinately and make the ship founder. Thus I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wise, Strong, Army

  "Mémorial de Sainte Hélène: Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena, Part 4" by Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases, (p. 133), 1823.

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• I made all my generals out of mud.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mud, Made

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• It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the full meaning of the term, titled spies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Government, Spy

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• If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Peace, War, Want

  "Libretto for the Republic of Liberia". Book by Melvin Beaunorus Tolson, 1953.

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