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• The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Honor, Half, Sparks

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

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• He who is unmoved by tears has no heart.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Heart, Tears

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• The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Fighting, Fate

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• An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Defeated

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

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• Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wine, Joy, Ballet

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• Unavailable wars are always just.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War

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• Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.

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  Military, War, Army

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• Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Beach, Islands, Independence

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• Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Power, Political

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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.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Long, Giving

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 561), 1922.

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• Men grow old quickly on the battlefield.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Grows, Battlefields

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• The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Poverty, Poor

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• The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Law, Practice, Mind

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• A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fake People, Views, Dignity

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• A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Time, Food, Men

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• All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.

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  Faith, Fall, Single Word

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• The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.

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  Prosperity, Mathematics, Nations

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• An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Army, Doomed

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• Diplomacy is the police in grand costume.

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  Police, Costumes, Diplomacy

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

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• Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.

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  Men, Practice, Expectations

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

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• It is cowardice to commit suicide.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Suicide, Cowardice, Commit

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• Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.

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  Organization, Force, Organize

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• Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit, by sometimes disregarding a single chance, fails in everything.

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  Power, Men, Hair

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• Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits

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  Military, Real, Foundation

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• Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.

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  Kings, Judging, Honor

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

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