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• I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  God, Religious, Believe

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• The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.

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  Morning, War, Fate

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• Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

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  Power, Public Opinion, Politics

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

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• The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Bible, Book, Biblical

  The Watchtower magazine, May 15, 1992.

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• He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.

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  Eye, Men, Looks

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

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• To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.

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  Military, War, Soldier

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• War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.

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  Art, War, Lying

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• Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

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  Vegetables, Revolution

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• Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Believe, Rights

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• Champagne! In victory, one deserves it; in defeat one needs it.

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  Wine, Victory, Needs

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• Men are never attached to you by favours.

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  Men, Favors, Favour

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• In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Youth, Illusion

  "History of the Captivity of Napoleon at St. Helena" by Charles-Tristan de Montholon, Vol. 3, (p. 187), 1847.

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• Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.

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  Prejudice, Common, Acquire

  "Memoirs of Napoleon" published by Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne, (1829-1831).

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• Better live a King, than a Prince.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Kings

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• Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Discovery, Slave, Printing

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• All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Bible, Prayer, Sublime

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 419), 1895.

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• It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

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  Mistake, Men, Mirrors

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

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• 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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  War, Issues, Giving

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• As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

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  Love You, Destiny, Wish

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• Promptly improve your accidents.

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  Accidents

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• Imagination governs the world.

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  Art, Creativity, Imagination

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

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• The first quality of the commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself to be confused by either good or bad news.

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  Confused, Quality, News

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• The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.

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  War, School, Soldier

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• An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.

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  Support, Aristocracy, Monarchy

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• I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier.

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  Europe, Want, Currency

  Letter to Louis Bonaparte, 6 May 1807

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