Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 6

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• Great ambition is the passion of a great character.

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  Character, Passion, Ambition

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• Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.

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  Strong, Pain, Coffee

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• God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.

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  Power, Overcoming, Politics

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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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• There shall be no Alps.

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  Alps

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• Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

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  Freedom, War, 4th Of July

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

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  Animal, Power, Men

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• The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

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  Crime, Plague, Criminality

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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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• Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.

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  Clever, Believe, Policy

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

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  Strong, Wicked, Weak

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• The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.

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  Inability, World, Study

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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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• Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

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  Leadership, Fear, Men

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.

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  War, Power, Would Be

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• My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

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  Failure, Height, Infinite

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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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• 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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• 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 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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