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• There are two merits that glorify a person: being courageous for a man and being virtuous for a woman. Besides these two, there is another merit that glorifies both man and woman: so much loving the homeland to an extent with being ready to sacrifice his/her life, if needed. Turks are such courageous and virtuous people. That is why you can kill a Turk but you can never defeat them.

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  Sacrifice, Men, Two

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• Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility.

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  Country, Europe, United States

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• Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

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  Failure, Succeed, Failing

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• You cannot treat with all the world at once.

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  World, Treats

  "Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts" collected and published by Cte. A. G. de Liancourt; edited by James Alexander Manning, 1848.

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• Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.

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  Religious, Despotism, Despicable

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• An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined.

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  War, Army, Effectiveness

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• My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.

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  Sweet, Grief, Heart

  "Napoleon's Letters to Josephine 1796-1812" edited by Henry Foljambe Hall, 1901.

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• The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.

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  Military, Artillery

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• Without cavalry, battles are without result.

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  Military, Army, Battle

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• 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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  Power, May, Politics

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• Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time.

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  Six, World, Forget

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2010). “The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.134, Fireship Press

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• We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

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  Design, Pretending

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

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• Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.

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  Powerful, Men, Worst Enemy

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• It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.

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  Oddities

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

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• In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole; relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.

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  War, Three, Moral

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• While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper.

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  Investing, Paper, Resorts

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• Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

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  Children, Parent, Done

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• From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same--majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.

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  Jesus, Simple, Lasts

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• Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!

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  Anchors, Safety, Evil

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• 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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  Book, Ideas, Pages

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• The spectacle of a field of battle after the combat, is sufficient to inspire Princes with the love of peace, and the horror of war.

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  War, Inspire, Battle

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• Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.

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  Ignorance, Stupidity, Obedience

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

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• In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.

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  Perseverance, War, Thinking

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• The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country.

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  Country, Army, Europe

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon's life in camp and cabinet, from the French of M. de Bourienne, Segur, Las Cases, &c. &c. &c”, Рипол Классик

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• Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.

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  Character, Age, Habit

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