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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Age: 52 †
Born: 1769
Born: January 1
Died: 1821
Died: January 1
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by the Grace of God and the Constitutions
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emperador dels francesos Napoleó I
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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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Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.
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In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.
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A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root.
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A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation.
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A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
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There is a joy in danger.
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The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.
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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.
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In war, as in prostitution, amateurs are often better than professionals.
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Nothing renders a nation so despicable as religious despotism.
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For the stability of the Government, the people should have a considerable voice in the elections.
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Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.
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A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.
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There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.
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High politic is only common sense applied to great things.
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