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Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
In practical administration, experience is everything.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
My most splendid campaign was that of March 20; not a single shot was fired.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
In civil war it is not given to every man to know how to conduct himself. There is something more than military prudence necessary; there is need of sagacity and the knowledge of men.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity, that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Conscience is the most sacred thing among men.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense — he is always satisfied with himself.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Dante has not deigned to take his inspiration from any other. He has wished to be himself, himself alone; in a word, to create.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Charity and alms are recommended in every chapter of the Koran as being the most acceptable services, both to God and the Prophet.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)