Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

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Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Military Leader, Emperor

Courageous

“The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.”

War School Soldier

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Military Leader, Emperor

Wise

“A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him”

Men Order Military

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Courageous

“The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.”

Defeat Doomed

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Love

“A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity.”

Faithful Friends

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Courageous

“It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.”

Men Character History

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Sad

“I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.”

Arms Fortune Companion

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Sad

“I haven't known 6 days of happiness in my life.”

Attitude Havens

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Philosophical

“War justifies everything.”

War Justify

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Courageous

“I closed the gulf of anarchy and brought order out of chaos. I rewarded merit regardless of birth or wealth, wherever I found it. I abolished feudalism and restored equality to all regardless of religion and before the law. I fought the decrepit monarchies of the Old Regime because the alternative was the destruction of all this. I purified the Revolution.”

Law Order Anarchy

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Courageous

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

Eye Fire Baptized In

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Philosophical

“It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.”

Oddities

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Hopeful

“Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.”

Wine Drinking

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