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• Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.

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  Law, Taxation, Should

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• One might as well try to charge through a wall.

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  Wall, Military, Army

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• I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.

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  Fire, Soldier, Diplomats

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• Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

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  Art, Philosophy, Men

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• Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.

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  War, Distance, Battle

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• I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.

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  May, Projects

  "Mémorial de Sainte Hélène: Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena, Part 4" by Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases, (p. 133), 1823.

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• The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

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  Art, Government, Let Me

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• All Italians are plunderers.

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• My generals are a parcel of post inspectors.

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  War, Parcel, Inspectors

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• War,--the trade of barbarians!

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  War, Barbarians, Trade

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• It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.

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  Men, Safety, Audacity

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

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• A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.

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  Manners, Command, Reserves

  "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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• I wish I could take a raincheck on June 18.1815

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  June, Wish

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• The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.

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  Fighting, Soldier, Fabric

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• What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do you imagine that I triumph in Italy in order to aggrandise the pack of lawyers who form the Directory, and men like Carnot and Barras? What an idea!

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  Running, Army, Men

  "Memoirs of Count Miot de Melito (1788-1815)" translated by Frances Cashel Hoey and John Lillie, Vol. II, (p. 94), 1881.

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• Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.

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  Civilization, Mind, Doe

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• It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one.

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  Mistake, War, Two

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• He is almost a statesman. He lies well.

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  Lying, Government, Wells

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• Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road.

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  Men, Heaven, Soul

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• Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

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  Management, Incidents, Should

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• Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human.

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  Perseverance, War, Blood

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• From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

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  Army, Pyramids, Looks

  Speech to his troops in Egypt, July 21, 1798.

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• I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.

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  Pages, Revolution, Resumes

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• Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

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  Audacity, Succeed, Chance

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

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• Keep a good table and attend to the ladies.

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  Tables, Eating

  Instructions to Abbé de Pradt, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 210-15, 1922.

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