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I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Responsibility, Fate, Made
"The Mind of Napoleon" by J. Christopher Herold, (p. 45), 1955.

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Live Life, Power, People

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

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

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Men, Twenties, World

How many things apparently impossible have nevertheless been performed by resolute men who had no alternative but death.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Military, War, Men

Act swiftly and vigorously, without 'buts' and 'ifs'.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Ifs

Lies circle the earth while Truth is still trying to put on its shoes.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Lying, Circles, Shoes

I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Wise, Country, Army
"Correspondance Napoleon" edited by Henri Plon, Vol. 4, No. 3148, (p. 420), 1861.

Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Strong, Pain, Coffee

A true man hates no one.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Hate, War, Real Men
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

When people cease to complain, they cease to think.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Thinking, People, Political

Whatever you ardently and passionately desire, that you obtain.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Desire

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Horse, Silly, Thinking

An order that can be misunderstood, will be misunderstood.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Leadership, Power, Order

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Business, Military, Three
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

The leader's role is to define reality, then give hope

Napoleon Bonaparte
Reality, Giving, Leader

Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Women, Negative, Slave

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Life, Men, Earth

When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation

Napoleon Bonaparte
Government, Leader, Bankers

Governments keep their promises only when they are forced, or when it is to their advantage to do so.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Power, Government, Promise

When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Power, Vienna, Politics

Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Enemy, Process, Destroying

Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Enemy, Wrong Things

A commander-in-chief cannot take as an excuse for his mistakes in warfare an order given by his sovereign or his minister when the person giving the order is absent from the field of operations and is imperfectly aware or wholly unaware of the latest state of affairs. It follows that any commander-in-chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forward his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's downfall.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Faults, Reason, Instruments

My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Sleep, Mind, Wish

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