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Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.

Not one cent should be raised unless it is in accord with the law.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Law, Taxation, Should

One might as well try to charge through a wall.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Wall, Military, Army

I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Fire, Soldier, Diplomats

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Art, Philosophy, Men

Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.

Napoleon Bonaparte
War, Distance, Battle

I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.

Napoleon Bonaparte
May, Projects
"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.

All Italians are plunderers.

Napoleon Bonaparte

My generals are a parcel of post inspectors.

Napoleon Bonaparte
War, Parcel, Inspectors

The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Art, Government, Let Me

War,--the trade of barbarians!

Napoleon Bonaparte
War, Barbarians, Trade

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

A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves.

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

I wish I could take a raincheck on June 18.1815

Napoleon Bonaparte
June, Wish

What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do you imagine that I triumph in Italy in order to aggrandise the pack of lawyers who form the Directory, and men like Carnot and Barras? What an idea!

Napoleon Bonaparte
Running, Army, Men
"Memoirs of Count Miot de Melito (1788-1815)" translated by Frances Cashel Hoey and John Lillie, Vol. II, (p. 94), 1881.

The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Fighting, Soldier, Fabric

Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Civilization, Mind, Doe

It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Mistake, War, Two

He is almost a statesman. He lies well.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Lying, Government, Wells

Paradise is a center whither the souls of all men are proceeding, each sect in its particular road.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Men, Heaven, Soul

Much shedding of blood, many great actions, and triumphs, toil and perseverance are the end of all things human.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Perseverance, War, Blood

Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Management, Incidents, Should

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Army, Pyramids, Looks
Speech to his troops in Egypt, July 21, 1798.

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
Pages, Revolution, Resumes

Keep a good table and attend to the ladies.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Tables, Eating
Instructions to Abbé de Pradt, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 210-15, 1922.

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Audacity, Succeed, Chance
Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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