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There Is Only One Thing In This World, And That Is To Keep Acquiring Money And More Money, Power And More Power. All The Rest Is Meaningless.

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There Is Only One Thing In This World, And That Is To Keep Acquiring Money And More Money, Power And More Power. All The Rest Is Meaningless.

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Let The Path Be Open To Talent.

Agriculture Is The Soul And Chief Support Of Empires; Industry Produces Riches And The Happiness Of The People; Exportation Represents The Superabundance, And Good Use Of Both.

Never Ascribe To Malice That Which Is Adequately Explained By Stupidity.

Whatever Shall We Do In That Remote Spot? Well, We Will Write Our Memoirs. Work Is The Scythe Of Time.

A Man Is Known By His Conduct To His Wife, To His Family, And To Those Under Him.

From The Heights Of These Pyramids, Forty Centuries Look Down On Us.

To Negotiate Is Not To Do As One Likes.

A Man Like Me Troubles Himself Little About A Million Men.

The Word Impossible Is Not French.

Sometimes A Single Battle Decides Everything And Sometimes, Too, The Slightest Circumstance Decides The Issue Of A Battle. There Is A Moment In Every Battle At Which The Least Manoeuvre Is Decisive And Gives Superiority, As One Drop Of Water Causes Overflow.

Parties Weaken Themselves By Their Fear Of Capable Men.

To Attach No Importance To Public Opinion, Is A Proof That You Do Not Merit Its Suffrage.

Generals Are Not To Be Too Scrupulous.

I Feel Myself Driven Towards An End That I Do Not Know. As Soon As I Shall Have Reached It, As Soon As I Shall Become Unnecessary, An Atom Will Suffice To Shatter Me. Till Then, Not All The Forces Of Mankind Can Do Anything Against Me.

Leaders Have To Be Dealers In Hope.

History Is Written By The Winners.

Whatever Misanthropists May Say, Ingrates And The Perverse Are Exceptions In The Human Species.

If You (to General Bertrand) Do Not Perceive That Jesus Christ Is God, Very Well; Then I Did Wrong To Make You A General.

Courage Isn't Having The Strength To Go On - It Is Going On When You Don't Have Strength.

It Is Not Necessary To Prohibit Or Encourage Oddities Of Conduct Which Are Not Harmful.

Power Is What They Like - It Is The Greatest Of All Aphrodisiacs.

Two Armies Are Two Bodies Which Meet And Try To Frighten Each Other.

The Greatest General Is He Who Makes The Fewest Mistakes.

In War, The Moral Element And Public Opinion Are Half The Battle.

He Who Is Unmoved By Tears Has No Heart.

Put A Rogue In The Limelight And He Will Act Like An Honest Man.

You Must Not Fear Death, My Lads; Defy Him, And You Drive Him Into The Enemy's Ranks.

From Triumph To Downfall There Is But One Step. I Have Noted That, In The Most Momentous Occasions, Mere Nothings Have Always Decided The Outcome Of The Greatest Events.

Every French Soldier Carriers A Marshal's Baton In His Knapsack.

Act Swiftly And Vigorously, Without 'buts' And 'ifs'.

History Paints The Human Heart.

A Starving Army Is Actually Worse Than None.

Whatever You Ardently And Passionately Desire, That You Obtain.

One Might As Well Try To Charge Through A Wall.

In Political Administration, No Problem Is Ever Simple. It Can Never Be Reduced To The Question Whether A Certain Measure Is Good Or Not.

In War The Simplest Manoeuvres Are The Best.

Forethought We May Have, Undoubtedly, But Not Foresight.

Un Croquis Vaut Mieux Qu

The Bible Is No Mere Book, But A Living Creature, With A Power That Conquers All That Oppose It.

When You Set Out To Take Vienna, Take Vienna.

The Secret Of Great Battles Consists In Knowing How To Deploy And Concentrate At The Right Time.

Courage Cannot Be Counterfeited. It Is One Virtue That Escapes Hypocrisy.

He Who Cannot Look Over A Battlefield With A Dry Eye, Causes The Death Of Many Men Uselessly.

In Statesmanship There Are Predicaments From Which It Is Impossible To Escape Without Some Wrongdoing.

If They Want Peace, Nations Should Avoid The Pin-pricks That Precede Cannon Shots.

Give Me Enough Ribbons To Place On The Tunics Of My Soldiers And I Can Conquer The World.

Conquer The World

I Treat Policies Like War. I Hoodwink One Flank So As To Trounce The Other. In My Family We Kneel Only To God.

A Nation Recruits Men More Easily Than It Can Retrieve Its Honour.

If Obedience Is The Result Of The Instinct Of The Masses, Revolt Is The Result Of Their Thought.

Speeches Pass Away, But Acts Remain.

The Future Destiny Of A Child Is Always The Work Of The Mother

The Heart May Be Broken, And The Soul Remain Unshaken.

The Art Of The Police Is Not To See What It Is Useless That It Should See.

Unavailable Wars Are Always Just.

Nothing Is So Contrary To Military Rules As To Make The Strength Of Your Army Known, Either In The Orders Of The Day, In Proclamations, Or In The Newspapers.

How Many Seemingly Impossible Things Have Been Accomplished By Resolute Men Because They Had To Do, Or Die?

Impossible Things

You Would Make A Ship Sail Against The Winds And Currents By Lighting A Bonfire Under Her Decks? I Have No Time For Such Nonsense.

Soldiers Win Battles And Generals Get The Medals.

Cavalry Is Useful Before, During, And After The Battle.

If You Want To Get On In This World Make Many Promises, But Don't Keep Them.

Men Who Have Changed The World Never Achieved Their Success By Winning The Chief Citizens To Their Side, But Always By Stirring The Masses.

I Made All My Generals Out Of Mud.

In These Days The Invention Of Printing, And The Diffusion Of Knowledge, Render Historical Calumnies A Little Less Dangerous: Truth Will Always Prevail In The Long Run, But How Slow Its Progress!

Cossacks Are The Best Light Troops Among All That Exist. If I Had Them In My Army, I Would Go Through All The World With Them.

Show Me A Family Of Readers, And I Will Show You The People Who Move The World.

Rashness Succeeds Often, Still More Often Fails.

The English Have No Exaulted Sentiments. They Can All Be Bought.

A Mathematician Of The First Rank, Laplace Quickly Revealed Himself As Only A Mediocre Administrator; From His First Work We Saw That We Had Been Deceived. Laplace Saw No Question From Its True Point Of View; He Sought Subtleties Everywhere; Had Only Doubtful Ideas, And Finally Carried The Spirit Of The Infinitely Small Into Administration.

Impossible Is A Word To Be Found Only In The Dictionary Of Fools.

Alexander, Charlemagne And Myself All Tried To Found An Empire On Force And We Failed. Jesus Christ Is Building An Empire On Love, And Today There Are Millions Of People Who Would Gladly Die For His Sake.

Since The Discovery Of Printing, Knowledge Has Been Called To Power, And Power Has Been Used To Make Knowledge A Slave.

Destiny Urges Me To A Goal Of Which I Am Ignorant. Until That Goal Is Attained I Am Invulnerable, Unassailable. When Destiny Has Accomplished Her Purpose In Me, A Fly May Suffice To Destroy Me.

The Implements To Him Who Can Handle Them.

Between A Battle Lost And A Battle Won, The Distance Is Immense And There Stand Empires.

Occupation Is The Scythe Of Time.

There Is Only One Favorable Moment In War; Talent Consists In Knowing How To Seize It.

When Defending Itself Against Another Country, A Nation Never Lacks Men, But Too Often, Soldiers.

In A Battle, As In A Siege, The Art Consists In Concentrating Very Heavy Fire On A Particular Point. The Line Of Battle Once Established, The One Who Has The Ability To Concentrate An Unlooked For Mass Of Artillery Suddenly And Unexpectedly On One Of These Points Is Sure To Carry The Day.

There Is No Real Force Without Justice.

Which Is Heavier: A Soldier's Pack Or A Slave's Chains?

It Is Often In The Audacity, In The Steadfastness, Of The General That The Safety And The Conservation Of His Men Is Found.

People Take England On Trust, And Repeat That Shakespeare Is The Greatest Of All Authors. I Have Read Him: There Is Nothing That Compares Racine Or Corneille: His Plays Are Unreadable, Pitiful.

Rigorous Authority And Justice Are The Kindness Of Kings.

The Fate Of A Battle Is The Result Of A Moment, Of A Thought: The Hostile Forces Advance With Various Combinations, They Attack Each Other And Fight For A Certain Time; The Critical Moment Arrives, A Mental Flash Decides, And The Least Reserve Accomplishes The Object.

Never Lose Sight Of This Maxim, That You Should Establish Your Cantonments At The Most Distant And Best Protected Point From The Enemy, Especially Where A Surprise Is Possible. By This Means You Will Have Time To Unite All Your Forces Before He Can Attack You.

The Worse The Man, The Better The Soldier.

It Is With Artillery That War Is Made.

A Portion Of The Multitude Must Ever Be Coerced.

In Order That A People May Be Free, It Is Necessary That The Governed Be Sages, And Those Who Govern, Gods.

Has A Man The Right To Kill Himself? Yes, If His Death Harms No One And If Life Is An Evil To Him. When Is Life An Evil? When It Offers A Man Nothing But Suffering And Pain.

When You Have Resolved To Fight A Battle, Collect Your Whole Force. Dispense With Nothing. A Single Battalion Sometimes Decides The Day.

It Is An Approved Maxim In War, Never To Do What The Enemy Wishes You To Do, For This Reason Alone, That He Desires It.

The Great Difficulty With Politics Is, That There Are No Established Principles.

The Army Is The True Nobility Of Our Country.

Society Cannot Exist Without Inequality Of Fortunes And The Inequality Of Fortunes Could Not Subsist Without Religion. Whenever A Half-starved Person Is Near Another Who Is Glutted, It Is Impossible To Reconcile The Difference If There Is Not An Authority Who Tells Him To.

An Army Which Cannot Be Reenforced Is Already Defeated.

It Is Neither Holy, Roman Or An Empire.

An Order That Can Be Misunderstood, Will Be Misunderstood.

Surely In A Matter Of This Kind We Should Endeavor To Do Something, That We May Say That We Have Not Lived In Vain, That We May Leave Some Impress Of Ourselves On The Sands Of Time.

All Things Proclaim The Existence Of God.

Existence Of God

If I Had Not Been Defeated In Acre Against Jezzar Pasha Of Turk. I Would Conquer All Of The East.

I Have Made Noise Enough In The World Already, Perhaps Too Much, And Am Now Getting Old, And Want Retirement.

What A Beautiful Fix We Are In Now; Peace Has Been Declared.

The True Wealth Of A State Consists In The Number Of Its Inhabitants, In Their Toil And Industry.

The Jews Are The Master Robbers Of The Modern Age.

Revolutions Are Good Times For Soldiers Of Talent And Courage.

Public Opinion Is A Mysterious And Invisible Power, To Which Everything Must Yield. There Is Nothing More Fickle, More Vague, Or More Powerful; Yet Capricious As It Is, It Is Nevertheless Much More Often True, Reasonable, And Just, Than We Imagine.

Those Who Failed To Oppose Me, Who Readily Agreed With Me And Accepted All My Views, Were Those Who Did Me The Most Injury.

In Matters Of Government, Justice Means Force As Well As Virtue.

Friends Must Always Be Treated As If One Day They Might Be Enemies.

Love Is The Idler's Occupation, The Warrior's Relaxation, And The Sovereign's Ruination.

Opportunities? I Make Opportunities.

France Has More Need Of Me Than I Have Need Of France.

Terrorism, War & Bankruptcy Are Caused By The Privatization Of Money, Issued As A Debt And Compounded By Interest.

They Wanted Me To Be A Washington.

The Purpose Of Religion Is To Keep The Poor From Killing The Rich.

There Is No Place In A Fanatic's Head Where Reason Can Enter.

A Legislator Must Know How To Take Advantage Of Even The Defects Of Those He Wants To Govern. The Art Consists In Making Others Work Rather Than In Wearing Oneself Out.

Ordinary Men Died, Men Of Iron Were Taken Prisoner: I Only Brought Back With Me Men Of Bronze.

Man, Not Men, Is The Most Important Consideration.

Lead The Ideas Of Your Time And They Will Accompany And Support You; Fall Behind Them And They Drag You Along With Them; Oppose Them And They Will Overwhelm You.

It Strengthens The Bonds Between Nations To Have The Same Civil Laws And The Same Monetary System.

Monetary System

I Cannot Believe There Is A God Who Punishes And Rewards, For I See Honest Folk Unlucky, And Rogues Unlucky.

Battles Are Lost Or Won In 15 Minutes

To Make Yourself Understood To People, One Must First Speak To Their Eyes

He Who Knows How To Flatter Also Knows How To Slander.

We Should Wash Our Dirty Linen At Home.

It's The People Who Are In The Wrong Who Get Angry.

If I Were To Give Liberty To The Press, My Power Could Not Last Three Days.

There Is No Man More Pusillanimous Than I When I Am Planning A Campaign. I Purposely Exaggerate All The Dangers And All The Calamities That The Circumstances Make Possible. I Am In A Thoroughly Painful State Of Agitation. This Does Not Keep Me From Looking Quite Serene In Front Of My Entourage; I Am Like An Unmarried Girl Laboring With Child. Once I Have Made Up My Mind, Everything Is Forgotten Except What Leads To Success.

Fashion Condemns Us To Many Follies, The Greatest Is To Make Oneself Its Slave.

The Gospel Is Not A Book; It Is A Living Being, With An Action, A Power, Which Invades Every Thing That Opposes Its Extension, Behold! It Is Upon This Table: This Book, Surpassing All Others. I Never Omit To Read It, And Every Day With Some Pleasure.

A Battle Sometimes Decides Everything; And Sometimes The Most Trifling Thing Decides The Fate Of A Battle.

Put Your Iron Hand In A Velvet Glove.

All Religions Have Been Made By Men.

A Leader Has The Right To Be Beaten, But Never The Right To Be Surprised.

I Am Surrounded By Priests Who Repeat Incessantly That Their Kingdom Is Not Of This World, And Yet They Lay Their Hands On Everything They Can Get.

We May Stop Ourselves When Going Up, Never When Coming Down.

Unite For The Public Safety, If You Would Remain An Independent Nation.

Oh Well, No Matter What Happens, There's Always Death.

Send Me 300 Francs; That Sum Will Enable Me To Go To Paris. There, At Least, One Can Cut A Figure And Surmount Obstacles. Everything Tells Me I Shall Succeed. Will You Prevent Me From Doing So For The Want Of 100 Crowns?

The Battlefield Is A Scene Of Constant Chaos. The Winner Will Be The One Who Controls That Chaos, Both His Own And The Enemies.

The Bible Is Not Merely A Book-it Is A Living Power. . . . Nowhere As In The Bible Can Be Found Such A Series Of Beautiful Ideas And Admirable Maxims Which Pose Before Us Like The Battalions Of A Celestial Army. . . . The Soul Can Never Go Astray While It Has This Book For Its Guide.

Christ Alone Has Succeeded In So Raising The Mind Of Man Toward The Unseen, That It Becomes Insensible To The Barriers Of Time And Space.

Peoples Of Egypt , You Will Be Told That I Have Come To Destroy Your Religion. Do Not Believe It! Reply That I Have Come To Restore Your Rights!

The Process Of Quitting Smoking Doesn't End With The Last Cigarette. It's Not Quitting Itself, The Real Key Is Staying Quit

Public Opinion Is The Thermometer A Monarch Should Constantly Consult.

When You Determine To Risk A Battle, Reserve To Yourself Every Possible Chance Of Success, More Particularly If You Have To Deal With An Adversary Of Superior Talent, For If You Are Beaten, Even In The Midst Of Your Magazines And Your Communications, Woe To The Vanquished!

The Mohammedan Religion Is The Finest Of All.

In Tragedy Great Men Are More Truly Great Than In History. We See Them Only In The Crises Which Unfold Them.

The Most Constant, The Most Powerful, And The Most Generous Of All My Enemies.

All Generals, Officers, And Soldiers Who Capitulate In Battle To Save Their Own Lives Should Be Decimated.

When A Man Is A Favorite Of Fortune She Never Takes Him Unawares, And, However Astonishing Her Favors May Be, She Finds Him Ready.

A Magistrate Is Not A Father; He Must Be Just And Severe. Only Tyrants Are Fathers.

Public Instruction Should Be The First Object Of Government.

Until You Spread Your Wings, You'll Have No Idea How Far You Can Fly.

Take Time To Deliberate, But When The Time For Action Has Arrived, Stop Thinking And Go In.

Thinking Of You

There Is No Such Thing As Accident; It Is Fate Misnamed.

After Making A Mistake Or Suffering A Misfortune, The Man Of Genius Always Gets Back On His Feet.

Audacity Succeeds As Often As It Fails; In Life It Has An Even Chance.

Never Interfere With An Enemy In The Process Of Destroying Himself.

Even When I Am Gone, I Shall Remain In People's Minds The Star Of Their Rights, My Name Will Be The War Cry Of Their Efforts, The Motto Of Their Hopes.

I Base My Calculation On The Expectation That Luck Will Be Against Me.

One Must Learn To Forgive And Not To Hold A Hostile, Bitter Attitude Of Mind, Which Offends Those About Us And Prevents Us From Enjoying Ourselves. One Must Recognize Human Shortcomings And Adjust Himself To Them Rather Than To Be Constantly Finding Fault With Them.

How Many Things Apparently Impossible Have Nevertheless Been Performed By Resolute Men Who Had No Alternative But Death.

I Know He's A Good General, But Is He Lucky?

France Always Has Plenty Men Of Talent, But It Is Always Deficient In Men Of Action And High Character.

Men, In General, Are But Great Children.

What I Have Done Up To This Is Nothing. I Am Only At The Beginning Of The Course I Must Run. Do You Imagine That I Triumph In Italy In Order To Aggrandise The Pack Of Lawyers Who Form The Directory, And Men Like Carnot And Barras? What An Idea!

An Army Of Lions Commanded By A Deer Will Never Be An Army Of Lions.

If I Always Appear Prepared, It Is Because Before Entering An Undertaking, I Have Meditated Long And Have Foreseen What Might Occur. It Is Not Genius Which Reveals To Me Suddenly And Secretly What I Should Do In Circumstances Unexpected By Others; It Is Thought And Preparation

Morality For The Upper Classes, The Gallows For The Rabbles.

I Would Rather Suffer With Coffee Than Be Senseless.

Bloodletting Is Among The Ingredients Of Political Medicine.

The Public Spirit Is In The Hands Of The Man Who Knows How To Make Use Of It.

Circumstances-what Are Circumstances? I Make Circumstances

I Drink Champagne When I Win, To Celebrate...and I Drink Champagne When I Lose, To Console Myself.

Across A Chasm Of Eighteen Hundred Years, Jesus Christ Makes A Demand Which Is Beyond All Others Difficult To Satisfy; He Asks For That Which A Philosopher May Often Seek In Vain At The Hands Of His Friends, Or A Father Of His Children, Or A Bride Of Her Spouse, Or A Man Of His Brother. He Asks For The Human Heart; He Will Have It Entirely To Himself. He Demands It Unconditionally; And Forthwith His Demand Is Granted. Wonderful!

Until Then, Mio Dolce Amor, A Thousand Kisses; But Give Me None In Return, For They Set My Blood On Fire.

I Know Men, And I Tell You, Jesus Is More Than A Man. Comparison Is Impossible Between Him And Any Other Human Being Who Ever Lived, Because He Was The Son Of God.

Moses Has Revealed The Existence Of God To His Nation. Jesus Christ To The Roman World, Muhammad To The Old Continent.

Every Private In The French Army Carries A Field Marshall Wand In His Knapsack.

It Is The Cause, Not The Death, That Makes The Martyr.

In War, As In Prostitution, Amateurs Are Often Better Than Professionals.

There Is Only One Step From The Sublime To The Ridiculous.

Liberty Is A Need Felt By A Small Class Of People Whom Nature Has Endowed With Nobler Minds Than The Mass Of Men;.... Consequently, It May Be Repressed With Impunity. Equality, On The Other Hand, Pleases The Masses.

When A Government Is Dependent Upon Bankers For Money, They And Not The Leaders Of The Government Control The Situation

Unity Of Command Is Essential To The Economy Of Time. Warfare In The Field Was Like A Siege: By Directing All One's Force To A Single Point A Breach Might Be Made, And The Equilibrium Of Opposition Destroyed.

The Only One Who Is Wiser Than Anyone Is Everyone.

Imagination Governs The World.

The Practice Of Law Sharpens The Mind By Making It Narrow.

The Heart Of A Statesman Should Be In His Head.

Valor Is A Gift. Those Having It Never Know For Sure Whether They Have It Till The Test Comes. And Those Having It In One Test Never Know For Sure If They Will Have It When The Next Test Comes.

Soldiers! Forty Centuries Behold You!

If Fifty Thousand Men Were To Die For The Good Of The State, I Certainly Would Weep For Them, But Political Necessity Comes Before Everything Else.

I Don't Employ Talleyrand When I Want A Thing Done, But Only When I Want To Have The Appearance Of Wanting To Do It.

Orders And Decorations Are Necessary In Order To Dazzle The People.

A Constitution Should Be Framed So As Not To Impede The Action Of Government, Nor Force The Government To Its Violation.

All Becomes Easy When We Follow The Current Of Opinion; It Is The Ruler Of The World.

What My Enemies Call A General Peace Is My Destruction. What I Call Peace Is Merely The Disarmament Of My Enemies. Am I Not More Moderate Than They?

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