Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 33

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• For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor

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  Equality, Order, Ideas

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• Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.

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  Thinking, Atheism, Matter

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• I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.

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  Politics, Crime, Committed

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• My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.

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  Stars, Fading, Slipping

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• One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

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  Ignorant, Routine, Genius

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

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• There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.

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  Military, War, Firmness

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• A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

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  Children, Giving, Victory

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• Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

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  Audacity, Succeed, Chance

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

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• In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

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  War, Half, Tactics

  "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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• The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.

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  Law, Circumstances

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

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• Cavalry is useful before, during, and after the battle.

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  Military, Army, Battle

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• In Russia there are no roads - only areas.

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  Russia, Areas

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• Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.

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  Men, Opinion, Honest

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• Lack is more in means, than in principles.

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  Mean, Power, Principles

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• An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.

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  War, Soldier, Emperor

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• We live and die in the midst of marvels.

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  Midst, Dies

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• Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.

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  Ignorance, People, Coward

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• Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement.

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  Music, Encouragement, Art

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.

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  Army, Government, Roots

  "The Mind of Napoleon". Book by J. Christopher Herold, 1955.

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• The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of all.

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  Party, Victory, Consolidation

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• Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.

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  Loss, Rights, Order

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• Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.

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  Power, Politics, Chance

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• Power is founded upon opinion.

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  Opinion

  "Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts" collected and published by Cte. A. G. de Liancourt; edited by James Alexander Manning, (p. 248), 1848.

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• The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible.

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  Victory, Battle, Moscow

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• Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.

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  War, Soldier, Revolution

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