Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes - Page 32

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• The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.

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  Powerful, History, Enemy

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• Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.

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  What Matters, Matter

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• Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!

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  Military, Soldier, Century

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2010). “The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.63, Fireship Press

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• If you (to General Bertrand) do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well; then I did wrong to make you a general.

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  Jesus, Christ, Wells

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• Men are lead by trifles.

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  Leadership, Men, Society

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• I shall be an Attila to Venice.

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  Venice, History

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• I generally had to give in.

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  Army, Giving

  Statement on his relations with the Empress Josephine (19 May 1816), quoted in "The Story of Civilization" by Will Durant and Ariel Durant, (p. 234), 1935.

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• Public instruction should be the first object of government.

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  Government, Firsts, Instruction

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• A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.

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  Stupidity, Fool, Pedants

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• Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.

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  Thinking, Atheism, Matter

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• For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor

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  Equality, Order, Ideas

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• I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.

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  Politics, Crime, Committed

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• An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.

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  War, Army, Care

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• Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.

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  Endure, Comes And Goes, Conquest

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• Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.

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  War, Long, Soldier

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• Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

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  Leadership, Soldier, Empowerment

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• My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.

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  Stars, Fading, Slipping

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• One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

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  Ignorant, Routine, Genius

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

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• There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.

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  Military, War, Firmness

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• Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

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  Liberty, Revolution, Made

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• In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

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  War, Half, Tactics

  "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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• In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.

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  Mean, Government, Justice

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• The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.

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  Law, Circumstances

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

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• In Russia there are no roads - only areas.

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  Russia, Areas

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• Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.

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  Men, Opinion, Honest

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