Top 100 Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
#1. A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.
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#2. The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance.
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#4. What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the confidence of each in themselves; that is to say, bravery, patience, and all that is contained in the idea of moral means.
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#6. Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
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#8. Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.
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#10. In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.
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#11. 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!
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#12. Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.
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#13. A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.
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#14. I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier.
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#15. All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art
by adjusting efforts to obstacles.
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#16. When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day.
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#20. Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.
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#21. International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.
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#22. It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.
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#23. I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.
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#25. A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.
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#26. He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.
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#28. The art of land warfare is an art of genius, of inspiration. On the sea nothing is genius or inspiration; everything is positive or empiric.
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#29. The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.
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#33. When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.
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#35. A man does not have himself killed for a half pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him.
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#38. There are only two powers in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
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#39. It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.
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#40. If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
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#41. The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.
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#42. Sirs, if it were not for that one red spot I would have conquered the world!!!
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#44. Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.
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#45. I have seen in the most significant of circumstances, that some little thing always decides great events.
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#46. You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
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#47. The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot
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#48. Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle at which the least manoeuvre is decisive and gives superiority, as one drop of water causes overflow.
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#49. The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.
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#50. After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.
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#52. From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same
majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.
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#53. The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world
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#54. All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated.
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#59. The gospel is not a book; it is a living being, with an action, a power, which invades every thing that opposes its extension, behold! It is upon this table: This book, surpassing all others. I never omit to read it, and every day with some pleasure.
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#60. A beautiful woman like eyes, and a good heart; One is a beautiful thing, and other treasures.
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#61. Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
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#62. The contagion of crime is like that of the plague. Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.
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#63. I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.
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#64. 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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#65. When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.
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#66. I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.
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#67. Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road.
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#68. In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.
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#69. A man is known by his conduct to his wife, to his family, and to those under him.
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#70. A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.
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#71. In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!
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#74. Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.
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#78. When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
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#80. Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.
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#82. I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.
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#83. Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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#86. The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.
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#89. In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything beyond that is a crime.
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#90. One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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#94. He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.
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#98. All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.
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#100. I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.
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