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Napoleon Bonaparte

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“A picture is worth a thousand words.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Imagination rules the world.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“War is the business of barbarians.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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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.”— Napoleon Bonaparte
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“Women are nothing but machines for producing children.”— Napoleon Bonaparte