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People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Reading, Play, People
Napoleon Bonaparte (2008). “The Corsican”, p.469, Wildside Press LLC

It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Law, Monetary System, Nations

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

Napoleon Bonaparte
Military, War, Fighting

A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him

Napoleon Bonaparte
Military, Men, Order

The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful!

Napoleon Bonaparte
Struggle, Rocks, Awful

Leaders deal in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Leader, Deals

A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Leader, Beaten

Leaders have to be dealers in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Leadership, Leader, Dealer

A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Kings, Sometimes, Crime
"Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts" collected and published by Cte. A. G. de Liancourt; edited by James Alexander Manning, 1848.

All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.

Napoleon Bonaparte
World, Opinion, Easy

God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Sick, World, Way

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Leadership, Army, Society

What is a throne? - a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state- I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public - people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.

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Dirty, Home, Army
Statement to the Senate, 1814.

Friendship is but a name. I love no one.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Friendship, Names

A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Power, Political, Politics
Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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
Class, People, Honest

What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?

Napoleon Bonaparte
War, Enemy, Destruction

Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Made, Conquest
Napoleon Bonaparte (2010). “The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.131, Fireship Press

Brave deeds are the monuments of brave men.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Men, Brave, Deeds

How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?

Napoleon Bonaparte
Men, Impossible Things, Accomplished
Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

But it is at home and not in public that one should wash ones dirty linen. [Fr., Car c'est en famille, ce n'est pas en public, qu'un lave son linge sale.]

Napoleon Bonaparte
Dirty, Home, Son

The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Honor, Half, Sparks
Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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

Napoleon Bonaparte
Peace, War, Want
"Libretto for the Republic of Liberia". Book by Melvin Beaunorus Tolson, 1953.

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Wise, Wisdom, Educational

Great battles are won with artillery.

Napoleon Bonaparte
War, Battle, Artillery

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