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1. "This society [Jesuits] has been a greater calamity to mankind than the French Revolution, or Napoleon's despotism or ideology. It has obstructed the progress of reformation and the improvement of the human mind in society much longer and more fatally.{Letter to Thomas Jefferson, November 4, 1816. Adams wrote an anonymous 4 volume work on the destructive history of the Jesuits}" ~ Napoleon
2. "Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him." ~ Napoleon
3. "Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues." ~ Napoleon
4. "In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them." ~ Napoleon
5. "The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need." ~ Napoleon
6. "A general must be a charlatan." ~ Napoleon
7. "It requires more courage to suffer than to die." ~ Napoleon
8. "You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them." ~ Napoleon
9. "There are in the world, two powers. The sword and the spirit. The spirit has always vanquished the sword." ~ Napoleon
10. "Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success." ~ Napoleon
11. "In war, theory is all right so far as general principles are concerned; but in reducing general principles to practice there will always be danger. Theory and practice are the axis about which the sphere of accomplishment revolves." ~ Napoleon
12. "Women Knit" ~ Napoleon
13. "More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one." ~ Napoleon
14. "Exista lucruri care nu se scriu niciodata!" ~ Napoleon
15. "Imagination governs the world." ~ Napoleon
16. "The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance." ~ Napoleon
17. "Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances" ~ Napoleon
18. "Victory belongs to the most persevering." ~ Napoleon
19. "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." ~ Napoleon
20. "Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted." ~ Napoleon
21. "What is history but a fable agreed upon?" ~ Napoleon
22. "I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword." ~ Napoleon
23. "From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events." ~ Napoleon
24. "Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons." ~ Napoleon
25. "Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent." ~ Napoleon
26. "A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets." ~ Napoleon
27. "A throne is only a bench covered with velvet." ~ Napoleon
28. "We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him." ~ Napoleon
29. "It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory" ~ Napoleon
30. "War is the business of barbarians." ~ Napoleon
31. "The love of glory is like the bridge that Satan built across Chaos to pass from Hell to Paradise: glory links the past with the future across a bottomless abyss. Nothing to my son, except my name!" ~ Napoleon
32. "Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment." ~ Napoleon
33. "You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense." ~ Napoleon
34. "Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least." ~ Napoleon
35. "If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest." ~ Napoleon
36. "Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten." ~ Napoleon
37. "Le mot impossible n'est pas français." ~ Napoleon
38. "Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me." ~ Napoleon
39. "As a rule it is circumstances that make men." ~ Napoleon
40. "We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost." ~ Napoleon
41. "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." ~ Napoleon
42. "It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity, that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds." ~ Napoleon
43. "One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas." ~ Napoleon
44. "Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you." ~ Napoleon
45. "Quel roman pourtant que ma vie!" ~ Napoleon
46. "The nature of strategy consists of always having, even with a weaker army, more forces at the point of attack or at the point where one is being attacked than the enemy." ~ Napoleon
47. "My maxim was, la carrière est ouverte aux talents, without distinction of birth or fortune." ~ Napoleon
48. "„Es gibt kein gutmütigeres, aber auch kein leichtgläubigeres Volk als das deutsche. Keine Lüge kann grob genug ersonnen werden, die Deutschen glauben sie. Um eine Parole, die man ihnen gab, verfolgen sie ihre Landsleute mit größerer Erbitterung als ihre wirklichen Feinde." ~ Napoleon
49. "Napoléon ubicumque felix." ~ Napoleon
50. "To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity." ~ Napoleon
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