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“Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Addressing members of the Catholic clergy assembled during ‘Bonaparte's Conference with the Catholic and Protestant clergy at Breda,’ May 1, 1810 (originally reported in the Gazette of Dorpt), as quoted in The life of Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of the French: with a preliminary view of the French revolution, Sir Walter Scott, Philadelphia: Leary & Getz, 1857, p. 91 http://books.google.com/books?id=6yEMAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA91&dq=%22you+reptiles+of+the+earth%22&lr=&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%22you%20reptiles%20of%20the%20earth%22&f=false
Variant translation: God placed me on the throne, and you reptiles of the earth dare oppose me. I owe no account of my administration to the pope,— only to God and Jesus Christ.
As quoted in The Christian Observer, Volume 10, 1861, p. 261 http://books.google.com/books?id=mc8WAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA261&dq=%22you+reptiles+of+the+earth%22&lr=&cd=2#v=onepage&q=%22you%20reptiles%20of%20the%20earth%22&f=false
As quoted in The British in Egypt (1971) by Peter Mansfield, p. 1
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“Parties weaken themselves by their fear of capable men.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.”
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, spoken statement (2 November 1831), as quoted in Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1886) by Philip Henry Stanhope
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“The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
On awards, as quoted in Mémoires sur le Consulat. 1799 à 1804 (1827) by Antoine-Claire, Comte Thibaudeau. Chez Ponthieu, pp. 83–84. Original: "On appelle cela des hochets; eh bien! c'est avec des hochets que l'on mène les hommes… Croyez-vous que vous feríez battre des hommes par l'analyse? Jamais. Elle n'est bonne que pour le savant dans son cabinet. Il faut au soldat de la gloire, des distinctions, des récomponses."
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Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.”
Source: Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848), p. 30
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“The true conquests, the only ones that cause no regret, are those made over ignorance.”
(November 26, 1797) as quoted in Andrew Roberts Napoleon: A Life p. 157
“There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Bonaparte has advanced with great strides, but he will never enter Paris.”
Le Moniteur Universel, March 19, 1815.
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