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" Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Take
Men
Never
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" The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. "
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" Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. "
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Great
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" I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. "
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Power
" I have only one counsel for you - be master. "
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Master
Counsel
" The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. "
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Give
" It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well. "
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People
Wish
Well
" From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. "
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Heights
Down
Forty
" Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. "
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Die
Nothing
" A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. "
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Patriotism
Long
" Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. "
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Stuff
Religion
" A true man hates no one. "
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True Man
Hates
Man
" There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Only
Two
Unite
" The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Will
Winner
Scene
" Ability is nothing without opportunity. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing
Ability
Opportunity
" History is a set of lies agreed upon. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Agreed
Set
Lies
" It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Martyr
Cause
Death
" The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
You
Who
People
" 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
Need
Welcome
Vanity
" It requires more courage to suffer than to die. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Than
Suffer
More
" A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Done
Direction
Children
" To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Like
Able
Would
" Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Fools
Dictionary
Impossible
" In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Question
Follow
Out
" A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Will
Fight
Harder
" When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Men
Them
Mediocrity
" The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Endurance
Soldier
Virtue
" There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. "
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Ridiculous
Sublime
Step
" Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. "
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More
Difficult
Than
" One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Should
Forbid
Never
" Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. "
Napoleon Bonaparte
Hard
Mistress
Me