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#1

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

tags: humor, politics, stupidity

1639 likes

#2

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

tags: family, readers, reading

1494 likes

#3

“History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the history books-books which glorify their own cause and disparage the conquered foe. As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”
― Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code

tags: history, misattributed-napoleon-bonaparte

1369 likes

#4

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

tags: history, lies, lying, propoganda, rewriting-history, self-deception

1131 likes

#5

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

tags: history

458 likes

#6

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

415 likes

#7

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

tags: leadership

384 likes

#8

“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

tags: devotion, leaders, religious

359 likes

#9

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

tags: ignorance, regret, stupidity, victory

319 likes

#10

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

tags: happiness, life, relationship-advice

322 likes

#11

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

308 likes

#12

“The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

292 likes

#13

“Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

311 likes

#14

“There are but two powers in the world, the sword and the mind. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the mind”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

278 likes

#15

“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: fear-of-failure

225 likes

#16

“The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

230 likes

#17

“A picture is worth a thousand words.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: art

202 likes

#18

“It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: brave

186 likes

#19

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

205 likes

#20

“Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: control, vice

170 likes

#21

“When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation, since the hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

156 likes

#22

“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

161 likes

#23

“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: ability, luck, sad-truth

156 likes

#24

“Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

145 likes

#25

“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets..”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: dissent, free-press, free-speech, newspapers

130 likes

#26

“Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

117 likes

#27

“Victory belongs to the most persevering.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

143 likes

#28

“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: history, past

112 likes

#29

“The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

tags: honesty, poverty

117 likes

#30

“Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

105 likes

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