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Emperor Inspirational Quotes (516)

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In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.
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Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.
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There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.
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A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering.
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The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.
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Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.
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Prison, blood, death, create enthusiasts and martyrs, and bring forth courage and desperate resolution.
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Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
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The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance.
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Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.
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The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.
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At the head of an army, nothing is more becoming than simplicity.
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There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
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In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.
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We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.
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Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on the flanks of the infantry, especially when the latter is engaged in front.
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The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.
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Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.
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Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power.
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I can no longer obey I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
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When people cease to complain, they cease to think.
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The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it, and the world is an inexplicable riddle believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.
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Tragedy warms the soul, elevates the heart, can and ought to create heroes. In this sense, perhaps, France owes a part of her great actions to Corneille.
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When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.
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