Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

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Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Military Leader, Emperor

Philosophical

“Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.”

Men Practice Expectations

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Napoleon Bonaparte

Military Leader, Emperor

Wise

“But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen. [Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]”

Home Son Dirty

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Philosophical

“Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests.”

Long Peace

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Angry

“Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.”

Doe Neglect

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Courageous

“There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.”

Rich Poor Murder

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Courageous

“In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.”

War Military

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Philosophical

“Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.”

Leadership Army

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Courageous

“What is a throne? - a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state- I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public - people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.”

Home Army Dirty

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Ambitious

“Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.”

Thinking Ambition Pace

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Sad

“When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.”

Men Knows Should

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Spiritual

“The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it, and the world is an inexplicable riddle; believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.”

Men Believe Race

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Courageous

“As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.”

Mean Morning Courage

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