Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes Part II

Imagination rules the world.
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Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
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In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.
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In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
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In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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Medicines are only fit for old people.
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Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
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Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
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Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
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Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
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Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
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Respect the burden.
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
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The army is the true nobility of our country.
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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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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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The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
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The French complain of everything, and always.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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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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The human race is governed by its imagination.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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