Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Men Quotes, Bears Quotes

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.

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You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.

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A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.

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I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness.

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I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection.

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To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes

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So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.

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My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep.

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There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.

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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

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God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles.

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Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.

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There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.

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The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.

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Better live a King, than a Prince.

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The worse the man, the better the soldier.

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You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

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In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.

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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

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In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.

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