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“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Imagination governs the world.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“History is written by the winners.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog.'

Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“A woman laughing is a woman conquered.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte, In the Words of Napoleon: A Collection of Quotations of Napoleon Bonaparte

“Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon's Memoirs