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Sovereign Inspirational Quotes (571)

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My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.
Cleopatra
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The poor man commands respect the beggar must always excite anger.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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[At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.
Cleopatra
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Rascals, do you want to live forever?
Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
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Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Unavailable wars are always just.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Battles are lost or won in 15 minutes
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue valor is only secondary.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Providence is always on the side of the last reserve.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Fools have a great advantage over the wise they are always self-satisfied.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government to foresee them marks a great government.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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War justifies everything.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Medicines are only fit for old people.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is necessary for the heart to feel as for the body to be fed.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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