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Napoleon Bonaparte
French
Leader
Born:
Aug 15
,
1769
Died:
May 5
,
1821
Man
Men
More
Only
People
Will
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There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Napoleon Bonaparte
World
Will
Long
Run
Spirit
Only
Long Run
Forces
Always
Conquered
Sword
Two
Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Win
Soldiers
Battles
Generally
Generals
Get
Them
Credit
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Lion
Government
Sometimes
Other
Secret
Lies
Knowing
Am
Whole
Fox
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion
People
Excellent
Stuff
Quiet
Common
Common People
Keeping
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Best
Word
Way
Best Way
Give
Keep
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Men
Virtues
Easily
More
Through
Governed
Than
Vices
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Great
Men
Mediocrity
Enterprises
Small
Attempt
Always
Reducing
End
Them
Level
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Man
Rights
Fight
Will
His
Than
Interests
Harder
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Veterans Day
Eyes
Fire
Soldiers
Rank
Been
Baptized
Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte
World
Imagination
Rules
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Time
Law
Men
Strike
Kind
Steals
Robber
Most
Does
Precious
Who
Whom
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Water
Air
Chief
Articles
Pharmacy
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Fate
Accident
Thing
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Death
Cause
Martyr
Makes
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Needs
Men
Consideration
Ability
Only
Take
Never
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Change
Every
Must
Superiority
Ten
Ten Years
Tactics
Maintain
Wishes
Years
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Time
Action
Thinking
Deliberate
Take
Go
Arrived
Stop
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Oppression
Those
Like
Oppress
Dislike
Who
Many
Among
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Better
Sometimes
Dangers
Destiny
Abandon
Torment
Self
Often
Avoided
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage
More
Than
Die
Requires
Suffer
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Fear
Men
Only
Self
Self-Interest
Moved
Interest
Two
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Bench
Only
Throne
Velvet
Covered
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Only
Step
Sublime
Ridiculous
An army marches on its stomach.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Army
Stomach
Marches
The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Great
Welcome
Herd
Out
Vanity
Seek
Sake
Influence
Them
Need
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Peace
Precede
Nations
Want
Cannon
Shots
Should
Avoid
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