Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 26

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• Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.

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  Military, War, Army

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• All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.

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  Faith, Fall, Single Word

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• The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.

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  Prosperity, Mathematics, Nations

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• From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.

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  Jesus, Simple, Lasts

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• Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility.

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  Country, Europe, United States

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• Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

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  Failure, Succeed, Failing

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• Diplomacy is the police in grand costume.

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  Police, Costumes, Diplomacy

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

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• When Monarchs abuse the rights with which they have been invested by the confidence of the people, and bring down upon their heads the calamity of war, the people have the right to withdraw their allegiance.

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  War, Rights, People

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• Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.

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  Kings, Judging, Honor

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

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• Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

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  Fear, Inspiration, Power

  Cited in Heinl, Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations (1966).

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• In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.

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  Perseverance, War, Thinking

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• The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.

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  War, Inspire, Battle

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• A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.

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  Art, Power, Politics

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• Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

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  Ambition, Thinking, Pace

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• The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.

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  Military, Artillery

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• Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.

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  Powerful, Men, Worst Enemy

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• Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

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  Ignorance, Stupidity, Obedience

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

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• We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

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  Design, Pretending

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

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• The implements to him who can handle them.

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  Tools, Handle

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• In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.

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  War, Three, Moral

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• Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

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  Inspirational, Faith, Believe

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• While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper.

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  Investing, Paper, Resorts

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• Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

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  Law, Practice, Theory

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

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• The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.

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  Power, Genius, World

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• After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Book, Ideas, Pages

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