Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 6

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• To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes

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  Eye, People, Firsts

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• Opportunities? I make opportunities.

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  Opportunity

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• Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.

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  Military, Artillery, Obstinate

  "The Dictionary of Military and Naval Quotations". Book Robert Heinl, Jr., 1966.

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• Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

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  Inspirational, Men, Waiting

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• My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.

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  Mother, Done

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• There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate

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  Fate, Hands, Recognise

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• The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.

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  Enemy, Chaos, Winner

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• Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.

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  Men, Class, Hands

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• I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.

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  Winning, Keys, Focus

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• Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.

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  Sweet, War, Smell

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• Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.

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  Jesus, Army, Men

  "Campagnes d'Egypte et Syrie", Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, (p. 275), translated by John Tolan in "European Accounts of Muhammad's Life", 1998.

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• My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money, as on the need to block for ever the march of the blacks in the world.

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  Block, Decision, Saint

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• You think you are too intelligent to believe in God. I am not like you.

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  Atheist, Believe, Intelligent

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• Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.

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  Change, Peace, Inspiration

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• One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.

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  Attitude, Forgiving, Mind

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

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• A good sketch is better than a long speech.

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  Life, Art, Architecture

  "L'Arche de Noé" by Marie-Madeleine Fourcade, (p. 48), 1968.

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• I have only one counsel for you - be master.

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  Masters

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• Force is the law of animals, men are ruled by conviction.

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  Animal, Power, Men

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• Imagination rules the world.

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  Positive, War, New Beginnings

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2010). “The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.107, Fireship Press

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• The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

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  Hands, Giving, Gains

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• The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.

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  Moving On, Regret, Conquest

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• The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

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  Mistake, Army, Navy

  Attributed in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

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• All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.

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  Clever, Opportunity, Men

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• The strong are good, only the weak are wicked.

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  Strong, Wicked, Weak

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• Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.

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  Power, Law, Justice

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