Napoleon Bonaparte

Military Leader, Emperor

Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military leader and emperor known for his role in the Napoleonic Wars and his influence on modern warfare and governance.

Born
August 15, 1769
Died
May 5, 1821
Quotes
864
Rank
#43

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"The worse the man, the better the soldier."

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"Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy."

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"My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother."

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"Until then, mio dolce amor, a thousand kisses; but give me none in return, for they set my blood on fire."

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

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"Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet."

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"You think you are too intelligent to believe in God. I am not like you."

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"Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd."

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"How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."

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"The world soffers a lot. Not because the violence of bad people. But because of the silence of the good people."

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"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."

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"Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses."

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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 torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny."

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"The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes."

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