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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “The reading of history very soon made me feel that I was capable of achieving as much as the men who are placed in the highest ranks of our annals.”
    ― Napoléon Bonaparte
    tags: history, napoleon-bonaparte
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: courage, inspirational, strength
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Imagination governs the world.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
    tags: art, imagination
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Victory belongs to the most persevering.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.”
    ― Napoleon Bonaparte
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “At twenty-two many things are allowed which are no longer permitted past thirty”
    ― Napoléon Bonaparte
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “One must never ask of fortune more than she can grant”
    ― Napoléon Bonaparte
    tags: chance, fortune, luck, opportunity
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “True character always pierces through in moments of crisis....There are sleepers whose awakening is terrifying”
    ― Napoléon Bonaparte
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    Napoléon Bonaparte
    “All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.”
    ― Napoleon
    tags: napoleon
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    Mark Twain
    “Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72”
    ― Mark Twain
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    Virgil
    “Roman, remember by your strength to rule Earth’s peoples – for your arts are to be these: To pacify, to impose the rule of law, To spare the conquered, battle down the proud.”
    ― Virgil, The Aeneid
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    Alexander Hamilton
    “Men give me credit for some genius. All the genius I have lies in this; when I have a subject in hand, I study it profoundly. Day and night it is before me. My mind becomes pervaded with it. Then the effort that I have made is what people are pleased to call the fruit of genius. It is the fruit of labor and thought.”
    ― Alexander Hamilton
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    Gaius Julius Caesar
    “It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life.”
    ― Gaius Julius Caesar
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    Gaius Julius Caesar
    “If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.”
    ― Julius Caesar
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    Gaius Julius Caesar
    “I love the name of honor more than I fear death.”
    ― Julius Cesar
    tags: death, fear, honor, love
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    Gaius Julius Caesar
    “He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.”
    ― Gaius Julius Caesar
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    Gaius Julius Caesar
    “In war, events of importance are the result of trivial causes.”
    ― Julius Caesar
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    Gaius Julius Caesar
    “When the gods intend to make a man pay for his crimes, they generally allow him to enjoy moments of success and a long period of impunity, so that he may feel his reverse of fortune, when it eventually comes, all the more keenly.”
    ― Gaius Julius Caesar, The Conquest of Gaul
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    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret -- that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him.”
    ― Cicero
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    Pericles
    “To be happy means to be free and to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.”
    ― Pericles, The Funeral Oration of Pericles
    tags: courage, free-speech, freedom, happiness
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost;
    The old that is strong does not wither,
    Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

    From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
    A light from the shadows shall spring;
    Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
    The crownless again shall be king.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: frost, glitter, gold, lost, poetry, roots, strength, strong, wander, wither
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    William Shakespeare
    “The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
    ― William Shakespeare, As You Like It
    tags: wisdom
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: bravery, courage, failure, inspirational, success
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Never, never, never give in!”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: perseverance, wisdom
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: humor
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."

    [On British Labour politician Stafford Cripps.]”
    ― Winston S. Churchill, Wealth, War and Wisdom
    tags: admiration, classic-insult, vice, virtue
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “In War: Resolution,
    In Defeat: Defiance,
    In Victory: Magnanimity
    In Peace: Good Will.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill, The Second World War: The Nobel Prize-Winning History of World War II
    tags: defeat, defiance, good-will, magnanimity, peace, resolution, victory, war
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: classic-insult, humor, humour, retort
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    Winston S. Churchill
    “The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.”
    ― Winston S. Churchill
    tags: history
    173 likes



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