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“Le mot impossible n'est pas français.”

“Messieurs, nous avons un maître, ce jeune homme fait tout, peut tout, et veut tout.”

“J'aurais dû mourir à Waterloo”

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“A dîner, il nous disait qu'il se trouvait beaucoup mieux, et nous lui avons fait observer, à ce sujet, que, depuis quelque temps néanmoins, il ne sortait plus, et travaillat huit, dix, douze heures par jour.
«C'est cela même,» disait-il: «le travail est mon élément; je suis né et construit pour le travail. J'ai connu les limites de mes jambes, j'ai connu les limites de mes yeux; je n'ai jamais pu connaître celles de mon travail.»”

“Depuis le premier jour jusqu'au dernier, il est le même, toujours le même, majestueux et simple , infiniment sévère et infiniment doux ; dans un commerce de vie pour ainsi dire public, Jésus ne donne jamais de prise à la moindre critique; sa conduite si prudente ravit l'admiration par un mélange de force et de douceur.”

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“Qu'est ce que l'histoire, sinon une fable sur laquelle tout le monde est d'accord. ”

“Le meilleur moyen de tenir sa parole est de nejamais la donner. ”

“Du sublime au ridicule il n`y a qu`un pas.”

“At the battle of Waterloo, when Napoleon's cavalry had charged again and again upon the unbroken squares of British infantry, at last they were giving up the attempt, and going off in disorder, when some of the officers in mere vexation and complete despair fired their pistols at those solid squares.”

Napoléon Bonaparte: Citations en anglais

“Europe is a molehill. It has never had any great empires, like those of the Orient, numbering six hundred million souls.”

Abraham Lincoln, Speech at New Haven, Connecticut https://archive.is/oYxvX (6 March 1860). <br class="br">About

“Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.”

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

“He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.”

Source: Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848), p. 246

“Aristocracy is the spirit of the Old Testament, democracy of the New.”

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

“Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.”

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

“Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.”

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

“In war, theory is all right so far as general principles are concerned; but in reducing general principles to practice there will always be danger. Theory and practice are the axis about which the sphere of accomplishment revolves.”

As quoted in The Story of World Progress (1922) by Willis Mason West, p. 433
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“At dinner, he told us that he was much better, and we pointed out to him, about this, that, for some time however, he had not been out, and had been working eight, ten, or twelve hours a day. "That is just it," said he: "work is my element; I was born and made for it. I have found the limits of my legs; I have found the limits of my eyes; but I have never been able to find the limits of my labour."”

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

“In love the only safety is in flight.”

A dîner, il nous disait qu'il se trouvait beaucoup mieux, et nous lui avons fait observer, à ce sujet, que, depuis quelque temps néanmoins, il ne sortait plus, et travaillat huit, dix, douze heures par jour.<br>«C'est cela même,» disait-il: «le travail est mon élément; je suis né et construit pour le travail. J'ai connu les limites de mes jambes, j'ai connu les limites de mes yeux; je n'ai jamais pu connaître celles de mon travail.» <br class="br">Mémorial de Sainte Hélène, Volume 6, p. 272 https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=qSliAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA272 <br class="br">About

“It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.”

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

“The cannibal has left his lair.”

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

“In war, luck is half in everything.”

Le Moniteur Universel, March 9, 1815.
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“Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.”

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

“The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.”

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

“All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst the less able man sometimes loses everything by neglecting a single one of those chances.”

Source: Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848), p. 146

“The tyrant has crossed Lyons.”

Letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs, Passariano (26 September 1797), as quoted in Napoleon as a General (1902) by Maximilian Yorck von Wartenburg, p. 269

“Some revolutions are inevitable. There are moral eruptions, just as the outbreak of volcanoes are physical eruptions. When the chemical combinations which produce them are complete, the volcanic eruptions burst forth, just as revolutions do when the moral factors are in the right state. In order to foresee them the trend of ideas must be understandingly observed.”

Le Moniteur Universel, March 13, 1815.
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“Policy and morals concur in repressing pillage.”

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)