Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 26

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• A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in making others work rather than in wearing oneself out.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Art, Power, Politics

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• When Monarchs abuse the rights with which they have been invested by the confidence of the people, and bring down upon their heads the calamity of war, the people have the right to withdraw their allegiance.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Rights, People

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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.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Bears, Fortune

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• Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

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  Inspirational, Faith, Believe

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• The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Glasses, Mind

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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.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Care, May

  "Napoleon in Review". Book by George Gordon Andrews, 1939.

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• Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Ambition, Thinking, Pace

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• If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  East, Acres, Conquer

  "Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. VII), 1916.

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• The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Power, Genius, World

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• Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

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  Body, Resolve

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

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• It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Kings, Jobs, Whining

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• Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Law, Practice, Theory

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

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• True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Determination, True Wisdom, Vigorous

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• When defending itself against another country, a nation never lacks men, but too often, soldiers.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Country, War, Men

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• I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sleep, Soldier, Battle

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• Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Cutting, Army, Paris

  Napoleon Bonaparte, D. A. Bingham (2010). “A Selection from the Letters and Despatches of the First Napoleon: With Explanatory Notes”, p.24, Cambridge University Press

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• Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used.

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  Important, Problem, Used

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• I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.

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  Order, Law, Anarchy

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• The implements to him who can handle them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Tools, Handle

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• We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.

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  Kings, Suffering, Individual

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

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• Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.

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  Inclination

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

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• The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Mean, Design, Insanity

  Maxims

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• A magistrate is not a father; he must be just and severe. Only tyrants are fathers.

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  Father, Power, Tyrants

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• You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.

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  War, Needs, Shouting

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• Man is entitled by birthright to a share of the earth's produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Men, Needs, Earth

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