I found the crown of France lying on the ground, and I picked it up with a sword.


Napoleon Bonaparte

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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, t...
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What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.
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Chief of the Army.
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The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anythi...
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In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
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To exraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being usef...
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Death is nothing; but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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Truth alone wounds.
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The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
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One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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