Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, War Quotes, Communication Quotes

When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!

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Adversity is the midwife of genius

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

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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

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The leader's role is to define reality, then give hope

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Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.

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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

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I would rather have a general who was lucky than one who was good.

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If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.

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Mankind are in the end always governed by superiority of intellectual faculties, and none are more sensible of this than the military profession. When, on my return from Italy, I assumed the dress of the Institute, and associated with men of science, I knew what I was doing: I was sure of not being misunderstood by the lowest drummer boy in the army.

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

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Friendship is but a name. I love no one.

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History paints the human heart.

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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

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Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.

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Speeches pass away, but acts remain.

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In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.

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Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

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God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.

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In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

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