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The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental flash

The fate of a battle is the result of a moment, of a thought: the hostile forces advance with various combinations, they attack each other and fight for a certain time; the critical moment arrives, a mental flash decides, and the least reserve accomplishes the object.

Napoleon Bonaparte
War, Fighting, Fate

I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding the helm; no matter how strong my hands, the sudden and numerous waves were stronger still, and I was wise enough to yield to them rather than resist them obstinately and make the ship founder. Thus I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Wise, Strong, Army
"Mémorial de Sainte Hélène: Journal of the Private Life and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon at Saint Helena, Part 4" by Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné comte de Las Cases, (p. 133), 1823.

An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Army, Defeated
Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

Unavailable wars are always just.

Napoleon Bonaparte
War

Two armies are two bodies which meet and try to frighten each other.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Military, War, Army

He who is unmoved by tears has no heart.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Heart, Tears

Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Wine, Joy, Ballet

Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Beach, Islands, Independence

Men grow old quickly on the battlefield.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Men, Grows, Battlefields

The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Law, Practice, Mind

Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Men, Long, Giving
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 561), 1922.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Napoleon Bonaparte
War, Power, Political

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Fake People, Views, Dignity

Diplomacy is the police in grand costume.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Police, Costumes, Diplomacy
Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Faith, Fall, Single Word

A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Time, Food, Men

It is cowardice to commit suicide.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Suicide, Cowardice, Commit

The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Prosperity, Mathematics, Nations

The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Men, Poverty, Poor

Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.

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

An army which cannot be regularly recruited is a doomed army.

Napoleon Bonaparte
War, Army, Doomed

Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Organization, Force, Organize

Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Failure, Succeed, Failing

Europe thus divided into nationalities freely formed and free internally, peace between States would have become easier: the United States of Europe would become a possibility.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Country, Europe, United States

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 Bonaparte
Men, Practice, Expectations
Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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