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It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Ashes
#Loved
#People
#Well
#Wish
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Like
#Plague
The French complain of everything, and always.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Always
#Complain
#Everything
#French
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Consideration
#Men
#Needs
#Never
#Take
Medicines are only fit for old people.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Fit
#Medicines
#Old
#Only
#People
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#History
#Skepticism
#Virtue
#Well
All religions have been made by men.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#All Religions
#Been
#Men
#Religions
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Designs
#Great
#Madness
#Means
#Proof
Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Ambition
#Never
#Pace
#Thinking
#Way
In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Build
#Follow
#Order
#Theory
#Whatever
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Constitution
#Obscure
#Short
#Should
With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Anything
#Audacity
#Everything
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Foresight
#Forethought
#May
#Undoubtedly
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Opinion
#Public Opinion
#Public
#Should
A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Atheist
#Become
#Cannot
#Man
#Merely
Respect the burden.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Burden
#Respect
I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Am
#I Am
#Louis
#Successor
Let the path be open to talent.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Open
#Path
#Talent
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Act
#Less
#More
#Order
#Policing
The human race is governed by its imagination.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Human Race
#Human
#Imagination
#Race
A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Closer
#Dignity
#Lose
#People
#View
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Ability
#Consciousness
#Love
#Space
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Avoid
#Crying
#Laugh
#Man
#Must
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Made
#Possession
#Riches
#Them
#Use
I made all my generals out of mud.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Generals
#Made
#Mud
#Out
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Better
#Destiny
#Often
#Self
#Sometimes
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Forbid
#Never
#Power
#Prevent
#Should
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Death
#Drive
#Enemy
#Fear
#Must
England is a nation of shopkeepers.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#England
#Nation
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Common
#People
#Quiet
#Religion
#Stuff
The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Battle
#Fought
#Grandest
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Bayonets
#Found
#Idea
#Revolution
#Which
War is the business of barbarians.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Barbarians
#Business
#War
France has more need of me than I have need of France.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#France
#Me
#More
#Need
#Than
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Always
#End
#Great
#Mediocrity
#Men
I have only one counsel for you - be master.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Counsel
#Master
#Only
#You
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Great
#Influence
#Need
#Seek
#Welcome
A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Children
#Direction
#Done
#Revolution
The army is the true nobility of our country.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Army
#Country
#Nobility
#Our
#True
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.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Artist
#Love
#Politics
#Power
#Violin
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Avoid
#Peace
#Shots
#Should
#Want
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Change
#Must
#Tactics
#Ten Years
#Wishes
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Dislike
#Like
#Many
#Oppression
#Who
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Law
#Men
#Precious
#Strike
#Time
Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Clothes
#Night
#Off
#Throw
#Your
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Hard
#Her
#Me
#Mistress
#Power
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#God
#Life
#Nature
#Religion
#Sun
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Agreed
#Fable
#History
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Courage
#Die
#More
#Suffer
#Than
A true man hates no one.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Hates
#Man
#True Man
#True
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#He
#How
#Knows
#Politics
#Who
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Best Way
#Best
#Give
#Keep
#Way
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Bench
#Leadership
#Only
#Throne
#Velvet
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Men
#More
#Through
#Vices
#Virtues
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Fear
#Interest
#Men
#Only
#Two
#Unite
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Courage
#Endurance
#Soldier
#Virtue
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Courage
#Hope
#Like
#Love
#Must
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Government
#I Am
#Lion
#Sometimes
#Whole
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Human
#Music
#Race
#Us
#Voice
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Being
#Defeat
#He
#Sure
#Who
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Action
#Go
#Stop
#Thinking
#Time
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Fight
#Man
#Rights
#Than
#Will
To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Be A Man
#God
#Like
#Man
#Would
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Honest Man
#Honest
#Man
#Poor
#Way
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Down
#Heights
#Look
#Pyramids
#Us
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Determination
#Resolute
#Truest
#Wisdom
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Disagree
#Fear
#Know
#People
#Those
#Who
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Admit
#Mistake
#Never
#Politics
#Retreat
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Cannot
#Command
#I Can
#Obey
#Up
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Decide
#Difficult
#Nothing
#Precious
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Chaos
#Enemies
#Own
#Will
#Winner
Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Battles
#Credit
#Get
#Soldiers
#Win
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#More
#Noise
#People
#Silent
#Speak
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Communication
#Man
#Mind
#Strength
#Will
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Only
#Ridiculous
#Step
#Sublime
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Cause
#Death
#Makes
#Martyr
A leader is a dealer in hope.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Dealer
#Hope
#Leader
#Leadership
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Best
#Body
#Cure
#Mind
#Quiet
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Ambition
#Bad
#Character
#Good
#Great
#Passion
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Fear
#Interest
#Men
#Self
#Two
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Bayonets
#Feared
#Four
#More
#Thousand
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Long
#Spirit
#Sword
#Will
#World
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Accident
#Fate
#Thing
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Ability
#Nothing
#Opportunity
#Without
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Deliver
#Nothing
#Success
#Wish
#World
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Belongs
#Most
#Persevering
#Victory
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Children
#Machines
#Nothing
#Women
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Done
#Want
#Well
#Wisdom
#Yourself
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Dictionary
#Fools
#Impossible
#Only
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Enemy
#Mistake
#Never
#Wisdom
#Your
An army marches on its stomach.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Army
#Marches
#Stomach
#War
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Art
#Enemy
#Fight
#War
#Will
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Eyes
#Fire
#Rank
#Soldiers
#Veterans Day
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Keeps
#Poor
#Religion
#Rich
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Handicap
#Politics
#Stupidity
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Fight
#Long
#Patriotism
#Soldier
#Will
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Answer
#Medical
#Next
#Will
#World
Imagination rules the world.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Imagination
#Rules
#World
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Agree
#Events
#History
#Past
#People
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
#Agreed
#History
#Lies
#Set
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