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Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

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

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

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

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

Imagination rules the world.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

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

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.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

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

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

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

“A woman laughing is a woman conquered.”