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If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius where reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation.


Napoleon Bonaparte

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