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History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their… — Dan Brown
If we go on to cast a look at the fate of world historical personalities... we shall find it to have been no happy one.… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Friend of fatherless! Fountain of happiness! Lord of the swill-bucket! Oh, how my soul is on Fire when I gaze at thy Calm and commanding… — George Orwell
Well, there it is. That's Jeeves. Where others merely smite the brow and clutch the hair, he acts. Napoleon was the same. — P.G. Wodehouse
Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his… — Doris Kearns Goodwin
Our prisons are full of people who think they're Napoleon..or God. — Ian Fleming
A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over… — Victor Hugo
To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because… — Leo Tolstoy
He looked up at them, a scruffy Napoleon with his laces trailing, exiled to a rose-trellised Elba. — Terry Pratchett
The weight of the world is on our shoulders, its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to… — Virginia Woolf
We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar,… — Orson Scott Card
I said to him, "Shall I tell you where the men are who believe most in themselves? For I can tell you. I know of… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often hear one hen… — George Orwell
Adolf Hitler is probably the last of the great adventurer-conquerors in the tradition of Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon, and the Third Reich the last of… — William L. Shirer
You may have the worst timing since Napoleon decided the dead of winter was the right moment to invade Russia. — Cassandra Clare
Besides, isn't it confoundedly easy to think you're a great man if you aren't burdened with the slightest idea that Rembrandt, Beethoven, Dante or Napoleon… — Stefan Zweig
He thought of men like Hitler, Stalin, and Napoleon. All it took was a lot of seemingly decent people to put the wrong person in… — Hugh Howey
The history of Napoleon now becomes, for 12 momentous years, the history of mankind. — Unknown Author
Napoleon could never imagine that some people loved their country as much as he loved his own. — David McCullough
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of… — Milan Kundera
Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the… — Lady Gregory
Europeans are forever the offspring of Machiavelli, trapped in a historical rollercoaster that can bring us a monarchy-toppling French Revolution and then a few years… — Loretta Napoleoni

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