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Politics Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
- In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
- You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
- In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
- I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out…
- Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
- He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
- Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.
- In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is absolutely necessary. Everything…
- Passions change, politics are immutable.
- A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his very faults.
- High politic is only common sense applied to great things.
- The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
- In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.
- In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.
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