“It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.”
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)
“The cannibal has left his lair.”
Le Moniteur Universel, March 9, 1815.
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“In war, luck is half in everything.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.”
Źródło: Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848), p. 146
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
“The tyrant has crossed Lyons.”
Le Moniteur Universel, March 13, 1815.
About
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Policy and morals concur in repressing pillage.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Never march by flank in front of an army in position. This principle is absolute.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“The life of a citizen is the property of his country.”
Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848)
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.”
Statement at Montereau (17 February 1814)
“A general must be a charlatan.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)