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Napoleon Bonaparte [1769-1821] French

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Leader, Military leader

Napoleon 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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Quote	Tags	Rank
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.	Death	101
A leader is a dealer in hope.	Hope, Leadership	102
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.		103
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.	Wisdom	104
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.	Politics	105
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.	Art, War	106
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.	History	107
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.	Wisdom	108
Imagination rules the world.	Imagination	109
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.		110
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.	Patriotism	111
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.		112
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.	Women	113
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.		114
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.	Success	115
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.		116
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.	Power	117
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.	Veterans Day	118
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.	Politics	119
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.	Famous	120
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.	Peace	121
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.		122
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.		123
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.		124
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.	Space	125
Victory belongs to the most persevering.		126
An army marches on its stomach.	War	201
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.	Death	202
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.	Men	203
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.	Religion	204
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.	Courage, Hope	205
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.	Men, Time	206
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.	Courage	207
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.		208
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.		209
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.	Fear, Men	210
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.	Communication, Strength	211
Let the path be open to talent.		212
I made all my generals out of mud.		213
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.	Great	214
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.		215
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.	Great	216
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.	Best	217
A true man hates no one.		218
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.		219
Respect the burden.	Respect	220
With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.		221
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.	Men	222
Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.		223
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.		224
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.	Wisdom	225
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.		226
Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.		301
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.	Politics	302
I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.		303
What is history but a fable agreed upon?	History	304
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.		305
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.	Leadership	306
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.		307
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.	Fear	308
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.		309
I have only one counsel for you - be master.		310
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.	Politics, Power	311
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.	Health	312
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.		313
A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.		314
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.		315
History is a set of lies agreed upon.	History	316
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.	Change	317
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.		318
A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.		319
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.	Power	320
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.	Government	321
Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.		322
France has more need of me than I have need of France.		323
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.	Best	324
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.	Nature, Religion	325
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.		326
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.		401
Medicines are only fit for old people.		402
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.		403
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.	Courage	404
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.		405
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.	Medical	406
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.	Fear	407
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.	Death, Fear	408
The human race is governed by its imagination.	Imagination	409
The French complain of everything, and always.		410
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.		411
War is the business of barbarians.		412
A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.		413
All religions have been made by men.		414
The army is the true nobility of our country.		415
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.		416
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.		417
Ability is nothing without opportunity.		418
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.	Religion	419
England is a nation of shopkeepers.		420
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.		421
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.		422
The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.		423
It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.		424
A Constitution should be short and obscure.		425

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