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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
Emperor of the French and King of Italy
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emperador dels francesos Napoleó I
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I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations.
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If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations fate will do the rest.
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The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.
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To make yourself understood to people, one must first speak to their eyes
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In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats.
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Medicines are only fit for old people.
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In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!
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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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Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world
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I generally had to give in.
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The inevitable end of multiple chiefs is that they fade and disappear for lack of unity.
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You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.
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Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims always take precautions against 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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You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
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You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.
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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.
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Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!
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Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.
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