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Napoleon Bonaparte

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"A picture is worth a thousand words."
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"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war."
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"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."
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"The best cure for the body is a quiet mind."
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"War is the business of barbarians."
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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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"A picture is worth a thousand words."

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"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war."

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"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."

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"The best cure for the body is a quiet mind."

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"War is the business of barbarians."

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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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"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind."

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"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

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"Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment."

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"The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue."

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"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."

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

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"The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know."

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"Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest."

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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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"There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest."

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"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god."

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"To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god."

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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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"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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"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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"When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity."

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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 great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means."

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"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."

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"What is history but a fable agreed upon?"

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"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."

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"History is a set of lies agreed upon."

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"Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy."

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"Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment."

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"A leader is a dealer in hope."

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"Imagination rules the world."

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"The human race is governed by its imagination."

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"A leader is a dealer in hope."

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"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god."

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"Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment."

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"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies."

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

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"Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues."

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"There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest."

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"Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest."

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"All religions have been made by men."

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"When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity."

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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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"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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"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots."

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"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies."

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"He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander."

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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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"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies."

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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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"One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent."

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"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."

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"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god."

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"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."

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"Respect the burden."

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"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind."

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"If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing."

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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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"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in."

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"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."

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"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war."

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"War is the business of barbarians."

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"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination."

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"Women are nothing but machines for producing children."

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