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History Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
- History is a set of lies agreed upon.
- History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
- Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- What is history but a fable agreed upon?
- Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
- In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.
- 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…
- I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.
- History paints the human heart.
- History is the invention of historians.
- I shall be an Attila to Venice.
- If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship…
- The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.
- Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.
- The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not correspond to the…
- To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from…
- History is written by the winners.
- History is a myth that men agree to believe.
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