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It is not that addresses at the opening of a battle make the soldiers brave. The old veterans scarcely hear them, and recruits forget them at the first boom of the cannon. Their usefulness lies in their effect on the course of the campaign, in neutralizing rumors and false reports, in maintaining a good spirit in the camp, and in furnishing matter for camp-fire talk. The printed order of the day should fulfill these different ends.
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One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.
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Sometimes a great example is necessary to all the public functionaries of the state.
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Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.
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Some oblige as others insult. One is tempted to ask reparation of them for their services.
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A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.
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The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.
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The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense — he is always satisfied with himself.
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Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.
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There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
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The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.
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The truth is that one ought to serve his people worthily, and not strive solely to please them. The best way to gain a people is to do that which is best for them. Nothing is more dangerous than to flatter a people. If it does not get what it wants immediately, it is irritated and thinks that promises have not been kept; and if then it is resisted, it hates so much the more as it feels itself deceived.
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That a country may be truly free, the people should be all philosophers, and the rulers all gods.
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More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.
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The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.
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It is not true that men never change; they change for the worse, as well as for the better. It is not true they are ungrateful; more often the benefactor rates his favors higher than their worth; and often too he does not allow for circumstances. If few men have the moral force to resist impulses, most men do carry within themselves the germs of virtues as well as of vices, of heroism as well as of cowardice. Such is human nature — education and circumstances do the rest.
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Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.
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Go, sir, gallop, and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything you like, except time.
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Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation.
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Great vices, and great virtues, are exceptions in mankind.
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Those who seek happiness in ostentation and dissipation, are like those who prefer the light of a candle to the splendor of the sun.
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Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people.
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A prince who gets a reputation for good nature in the first year of his reign, is laughed at in the second.
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It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.
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Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.
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Born:
August 15, 1769
Died:
May 5, 1821
(aged 51)
Bio:
Napoléon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars.
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