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Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.

Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Men, Class, Hands

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Attitude, Fear, War

If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Country, Geography, Foreign Policy

The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Art, War, Gains

The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Army, Bullets, Kill Me
Statement at Montereau, February 17, 1814.

Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work

Napoleon Bonaparte
Worst Enemy, Enemy, Mankind

Better to have an open enemy, than hidden friends.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Enemy

Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost.

Napoleon Bonaparte
News, Journalism, Lost

The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army. . . . The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Life, Beautiful, Book

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Strength, Being Strong, Communication

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Failure, Height, Infinite

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Inspirational, Men, Waiting

The Mohammedan religion is the finest of all.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Army, Finest
"Talks of Napoleon at St. Helena with General Baron Gourgaud, together with the journal kept by Gourgaud on their journey from Waterloo to St Helena", (pp. 279 - 280), 1903.

My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Mother, Done

There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion, Reason, Fanatics
Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

Force is the law of animals, men are ruled by conviction.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Animal, Power, Men

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Hands, Giving, Gains

There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate

Napoleon Bonaparte
Fate, Hands, Recognise

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Inspiration, Carpe Diem, Race
"Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations". Book by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, 1922.

Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Jesus, Army, Men
"Campagnes d'Egypte et Syrie", Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, (p. 275), translated by John Tolan in "European Accounts of Muhammad's Life", 1998.

You think you are too intelligent to believe in God. I am not like you.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Atheist, Believe, Intelligent

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Inspirational, Leadership, Encouraging
Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

Occupation is the scythe of time.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Time, Occupation, Scythes
Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon's life in camp and cabinet, from the French of M. de Bourienne, Segur, Las Cases, &c. &c. &c”, Рипол Классик

Every beggar shall be arrested. But to arrest a beggar merely in order to put him in jail would be barbarous and absurd. He should be arrested for the sole purpose of teaching him how to earn a living by his work.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Teaching, Order, Jail

Opportunities? I make opportunities.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Opportunity

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