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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

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

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

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

“Imagination governs the world.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

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

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

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

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

“Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
― Robert J. Hanlon

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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

“Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

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

“In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte

“An army marches on its stomach.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte