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Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes about Giving

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

"Memoirs of Count Miot de Melito (1788-1815)" translated by Frances Cashel Hoey and John Lillie, Vol. II, (p. 113), 1881.

The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.

"Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. IV), 1916.

I generally had to give in.

Statement on his relations with the Empress Josephine (19 May 1816), quoted in "The Story of Civilization" by Will Durant and Ariel Durant, (p. 234), 1935.