Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 34

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• When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Communication, Risk

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.

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  Men, Favors, May

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

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• The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Fate, May

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• Public morals are natural complement of all laws they are by themselves an entire code.

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  Power, Law, Politics

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• In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing.

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  Impossible, Predicaments, Wrongdoing

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

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• Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.

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  Power, Europe, Politics

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• What a solace Christianity must be to one who has an undoubted conviction of its truth!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Religion, Christianity, Conviction

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• Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sleep, Fanaticism

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

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• Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Ideas, Noble, Nations

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• Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Law, Taxation, Should

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• Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Art, Philosophy, Men

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• I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  May, Projects

  "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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• My generals are a parcel of post inspectors.

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  War, Parcel, Inspectors

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• All Italians are plunderers.

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• War,--the trade of barbarians!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Barbarians, Trade

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• A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Manners, Command, Reserves

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

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• What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do you imagine that I triumph in Italy in order to aggrandise the pack of lawyers who form the Directory, and men like Carnot and Barras? What an idea!

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  Running, Army, Men

  "Memoirs of Count Miot de Melito (1788-1815)" translated by Frances Cashel Hoey and John Lillie, Vol. II, (p. 94), 1881.

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• The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.

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  Fighting, Soldier, Fabric

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• Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.

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  Civilization, Mind, Doe

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• Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.

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  Destiny, Events, Demand

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• It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one.

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  Mistake, War, Two

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• Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Management, Incidents, Should

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• From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

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  Army, Pyramids, Looks

  Speech to his troops in Egypt, July 21, 1798.

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• Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human.

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  Perseverance, War, Blood

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• Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road.

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  Men, Heaven, Soul

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