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A military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution. Napoleon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a military and political leader during the latter stages of the French Revolution. As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 to 1815. His legal reform, the Napoleonic Code, has been a major influence on many civil law jurisdictions worldwide, but he is best remembered for the wars he led against a series of coalitions, the so-called Napoleonic Wars, during which he established hegemony over much of Europe and sought to spread revolutionary ideals.
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Imagination rules the world.
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
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It is cowardice to commit suicide.
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The only victory over love is flight.
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Ability is nothing without opportunity.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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Victory belongs to the most persevering.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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With audacity one can undertake anything.
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Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.
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If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna.
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My downfall raises me to infinite heights.
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Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.
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Men in general are but great great children.
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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
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The human race is governed by its imagination.
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The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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The heart of a statesman should be in his head.
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Ability is of little account without opportunity.
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You may ask me for anything you like except time.
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.
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It is the cause not the death that makes the martyr.
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Forethought we may have undoubtedly but not foresight.
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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
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There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.
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A man's palate can in time become accustomed to anything.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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Public instruction should be the first object of government.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.
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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
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10 persons who speak make more noise than 10 000 who are silent.
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Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
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Men take only their needs into consideration never their abilities.
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Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.
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Death is nothing but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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How many really capable men are children more than once during the day?
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Soldiers forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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The act of policing is in order to punish less often to punish more severely.
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Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make oneself its slave.
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Nothing is more difficult and therefore more precious than to be able to decide.
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures but in the use made of them.
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If they want peace nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
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Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
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All the scholastic scaffolding falls as a ruined edifice before a single word: faith.
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Love is the idler's occupation the warrior's relaxation and the soverign's ruination.
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If I had to choose a religion the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
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This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten and goes on fighting.
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Take time to deliberate but when the time for action has arrived stop thinking and go in.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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For the maintenance of peace nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon-shots.
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To do all that one is able to do is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.
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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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France always has plenty men of talent but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.
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Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at and who steals what is most precious to men.
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The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
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Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness the hideous ingratitude of man.
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
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A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.
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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
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Give me a man with a good allowance of nose ... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.
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To write history one must be more than a man since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.
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Alexander Caesar Charlemagne and I myself have founded empires; but upon what do these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love; and to this very day millions would die for Him.
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Alexander Caesar Charlemagne and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.
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As to moral courage I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion and which in spite of the most unforeseen events leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.