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Up Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
- I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
- What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do you imagine that…
- Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.
- There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that…
- It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.
- It is an ambassador's duty to stand up for his nation's foreign policy in any era and under any government whatsoever. Ambassadors are, in the…
- We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.
- Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'.
- In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.
- I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.
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