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Napoleon Bonaparte


French
August 15, 1769
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Respect the burden.


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Ability is nothing without opportunity.


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The French complain of everything, and always.


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History is a set of lies agreed upon.


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A Constitution should be short and obscure.


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What is history but a fable agreed upon?


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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.


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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.


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A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.


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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.


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He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.


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France has more need of me than I have need of France.


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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.


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The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.


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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.


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I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.


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When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.


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Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.


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You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.


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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
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The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
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