Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 27

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• I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Thinking, People, Dead People

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• The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Government, Class, Democracy

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

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• Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

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  Children, Parent, Done

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• The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.

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  War, Glasses, Mind

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• Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Character, Age, Habit

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• Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

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  Body, Resolve

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

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• I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers

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  Sleep, Soldier, Battle

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• A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.

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  Father, Power, Tyrants

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• There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment.

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  Men, Play, Two

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

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• Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

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  Men, Bears, Fortune

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• France has more need of me than I have need of France.

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  Needs, France

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• The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Hands, Use

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• A portion of the multitude must ever be coerced.

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  Portions, Multitudes

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• Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Winning, Giving

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• The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.

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  Work, Numbers, Toil

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• In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.

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  Greatness, Men, Tragedy

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• It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory

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  Men, Soul, Victory

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• You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.

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  War, Needs, Shouting

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• A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.

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  Army, Care, May

  "Napoleon in Review". Book by George Gordon Andrews, 1939.

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• War is like government, a matter of tact.

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  War, Government, Matter

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• I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.

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  Order, Law, Anarchy

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• It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.

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  Reason, Legislature, Impassioned

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

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• If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.

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  East, Acres, Conquer

  "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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• I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.

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  Arms, Fortune, Companion

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• Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used.

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  Important, Problem, Used

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