Napoleon Bonaparte
France
15 Aug 1769 // 5 May 1821
General / Emperor
15 Aug 1769 // 5 May 1821
General / Emperor
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Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues
Medicines are only fit for old people
It requires more courage to suffer than to die
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr
In politics stupidity is not a handicap
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
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools
Imagination rules the world
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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Essays