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Napoleon Bonaparte Inspirational Quotes (509)

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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
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Secrets travel fast in Paris.
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Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you fall behind them and they drag you along with them oppose them and they will overwhelm you.
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Man, not men, is the most important consideration.
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Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world
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The worse the man, the better the soldier.
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The secret of war lies in the communications.
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An aristocracy is the true support of a monarchy.
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
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Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.
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Act swiftly and vigorously, without 'buts' and 'ifs'.
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The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time the critical moment arrives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object.
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It is with artillery that war is made.
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The people excited by ambitious demagogues, sooner or later return into the hands of the Aristocracy.
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One bad general is worth two good ones.
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There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
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Pure politics is merely the calculus of combinations and of chances.
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Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.
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My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.
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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
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Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.
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A leader is a dealer in hope.
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Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used.
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Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.
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