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Character Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
- 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…
- It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration…
- In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.
- Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.
- Great ambition is the passion of a great character.
- Character is victory organized.
- To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.
- It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.
- France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.
- Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.
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