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It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
The religious zeal which animates priests, leads them to undertake labors and to brave perils which would be far beyond the powers of one in secular employment (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
Changing from the defensive to the offensive, is one of the most delicate operations in war (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
An army ought to be ready every moment to offer all the resistance of which it is capable (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
The art of war consists in being always able, even with an inferior army, to have stronger forces than the enemy at the point of attack or the point which is attacked (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
The praises of enemies are always to be suspected. A man of honor will not permit himself to be flattered by them, except when they are given after the cessation of hostilities (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
In civil war it is not given to every man to know how to conduct himself. There is something more than military prudence necessary; there is need of sagacity and the knowledge of men (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
That dependable courage, which in spite of the most sudden circumstances, nevertheless allows freedom of mind, of judgment and of decision, is exceedingly rare (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
To plan to reserve cavalry for the finish of the battle, is to have no conception of the power of combined infantry and cavalry charges, either for attack or for defense (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
Soldiers, think of it, from the summit of these pyramids, forty centuries look down upon you (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
The men who have changed the universe have never accomplished it by changing officials but always by inspiring the people (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, the further does it swell. Land, monuments, nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck; I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
The sight of a battlefield after the fight is enough to inspire princes with a love of peace and a horror of war (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
To a father who loves his children victor has no charms. When the heart speaks, glory itself is an illusion (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)
The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin (Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes)