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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Age: 52 †
Born: 1769
Born: January 1
Died: 1821
Died: January 1
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emperador dels francesos Napoleó I
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All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
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Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.
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After me, the Revolution - or, rather the ideas which formed it - will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.
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Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
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If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.
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I have come to realise that men are not born to be free.
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Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections.
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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
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Good intelligence is nine-tenths of any battle.
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Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.
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