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Napoleon Bonaparte

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Napoleon Bonaparte observes that true victories are those that defeat ignorance, not just enemies. He warns that when governments rely on bankers, power shifts away from leaders, and that anarchy can become a stepping stone to absolute power. He also notes that men age quickly on battlefields and that the fatal bullet may not yet be cast.

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Napoleon Bonaparte, later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was Emperor of the French from 18 May 1804 until his first abdication in 1814, with a brief restoration during the Hundred Days in 1815.

Quick Facts About Napoleon Bonaparte

Notable works: Correspondance de Napoléon Ier: Publiée Par Ordre de L'empereur Napoléon III

About Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte, later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was Emperor of the French from 18 May 1804 until his first abdication in 1814, with a brief restoration during the Hundred Days in 1815. He rose to prominence as a general during the French Revolution and led a series of military campaigns across Europe and the Middle East during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. As a statesman, he implemented numerous legal and administrative reforms in France and Europe.

Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

Men are led by trifles.

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Greatness

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Promptly improve your accidents.

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Accidents

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Let the path be open to talent.

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Journey

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Truth alone wounds.

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Truth

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France will always be a great nation.

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English

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They wanted me to be a Washington.

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Political

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It is cowardice to commit suicide.

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All Italians are plunderers.

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Funny

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While I live I will never resort to irredeemable paper.

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Funny

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An Emperor confides in national soldiers, not in mercenaries.

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Emperor

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Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war

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True wisdom for a general is vigorous determination.

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Determination

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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

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Here, Gentlemen, a dog teaches us a lesson in humanity.

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Animal

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Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.

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Dominates

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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

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Dictionary

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Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible...

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Dictionary

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I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

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Argument

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If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.

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In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them.

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Illusion

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I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.

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The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory

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Bayonet

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

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Conquest

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One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope.

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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…

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Army

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My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But…

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Battle

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As for myself, I do not believe that such a person as Jesus Christ ever existed; but as the people are inclined…

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Atheism

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A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations,…

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War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he…

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Adversaries

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Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man -…

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Unity of command is essential to the economy of time. Warfare in the field was like a siege: by directing all one's…

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As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that…

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Clock

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“It is not true that men never change; they change for the worse, as well as for the better. It is not…

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Human nature

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There are two merits that glorify a person: being courageous for a man and being virtuous for a woman. Besides these two,…

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Courage

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This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except…

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Battle

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For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all…

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Army

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“War is becoming an anachronism; if we have battled in every part of the continent it was because two opposing social orders…

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French revolution

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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…

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Army

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A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that…

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Administration

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Washington is dead! This great man fought against Tyranny; he established the liberty of his country. His memory will always be dear…

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American soldier

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