Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 10

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• There is no real force without justice.

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  Real, Justice, Force

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• We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.

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  Failure, May

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• There are only two forces 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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  Running, Two, Long

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• Character is victory organized.

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  Character, Victory, Thrive

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• Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

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  Children, Women, Army

  "The St. Helena Journal of General Baron Gourgaud, 1815-1818 : Being a Diary written at St. Helena during a part of Napoleon's Captivity", translated by Norman Edwards, 1932.

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• True wisdom, in general, consists in energetic determination.

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  Determination, Energetic, True Wisdom

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• I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.

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  Grieving, Atoms, Unnecessary

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• Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it can be justified. It certainly originates in that species of fear which we denominate poltroonery. For what claim can that man have to courage who trembles at the frowns of fortunes? True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life in whatever shape they may challenge him to combat.

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  Suicide, Men, Understanding

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• Give Me a Turkish Army. I will Conquer world.

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  Army, Giving, World

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• Fashion condemns us to many follies, the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

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  Fashion, Clothes, Slave

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• A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

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  Education, Advice, Bayonets

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• You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

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  Death, War, Enemy

  "Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources" by Rev. James Wood, (p. 567), 1899.

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• Vengeance is without foresight.

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  Vengeance, Foresight

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• Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.

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  Stupidity, Limits

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• Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world

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  Greatness, Men, Light

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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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  Inspirational, Thinking Of You, Time

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• Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination.

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  Love, Warrior, Relaxation

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• My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.

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  Military, Succeed, Action

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• In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!

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  Art, Military, War

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• If you want to get on in this world make many promises, but don't keep them.

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  Success, Promise, World

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• Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

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  Taken, Medicine, Medical

  Napoleon in Exile (Barry O'Meara)

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• Speeches pass away, but acts remain.

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  Power, Passing Away, Speech

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• Public opinion is a mysterious and invisible power, to which everything must yield. There is nothing more fickle, more vague, or more powerful; yet capricious as it is, it is nevertheless much more often true, reasonable, and just, than we imagine.

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  Powerful, Yield, Public Opinion

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• When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.

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  Enemy

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• It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.

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  War, Enemy, Wish

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.17, Courier Corporation

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