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Good 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…
- The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school…
- Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.
- Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all…
- Good infantry is without doubt the sinews of an army; but if it has to fight a long time against very superior artillery, it will…
- The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath,…
- I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding…
- To have good soldiers, a nation must always be at war.
- One bad general is worth two good ones.
- There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once. I see one thing, namely the enemy's main body. I…
- Revolutions are good times for soldiers of talent and courage.
- Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.
- In political administration, no problem is ever simple. It can never be reduced to the question whether a certain measure is good or not.
- If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything…
- A King should sacrifice the best affections of his heart for the good of his country; no sacrifice should be above his determination.
- We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do…
- The strong are good, only the weak are wicked.
- When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.
- My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.
- Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately,…
- Keep a good table and attend to the ladies.
- Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
- The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people.
- I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?
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