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Great 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…
- When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
- The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
- The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
- In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.
- A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but…
- 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…
- The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself.
- He, who practices right, but in the hope of acquiring great renown, is very near to vice.
- It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.
- Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very…
- It is the success which makes great men.
- Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent,…
- Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls…
- Great men are never cruel without necessity.
- In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!
- Great men grow tired of contentedness.
- Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic. ... This is the only way to become a…
- Great battles are won with artillery.
- Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human.
- Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.
- High politic is only common sense applied to great things.
- A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.
- In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.
- Great events ever depend but upon a single hair. The adroit man profits by everything, neglects nothing which can increase his chances; the less adroit,…
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