Napoleon Quotes
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“The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.”
“The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.”
“Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.”
“Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire.”
“Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.”
“A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.”
“One bad general is worth two good ones.”
“Treason is a matter of dates.”
“The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.”
“Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.”
“I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.”
“I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.”
“Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.”
“A people that is able to say everything, becomes able to do everything. The crowd which follows me with admiration, would run with the same eagerness were I marching to the Guillotine.”
“Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.”
“The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.”
“In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.”
“My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.”
“Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits.”
“I haven’t known 6 days of happiness in my life.”
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