Quotes about Napoleon

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Your Excellency, I have no need of this hypothesis. — Pierre-Simon Laplace
Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existen — Criss Jami, Killosophy
If you think you are beaten, you areIf you think you dare not, you don't,If you like to win, but you think you can'tIt i — Walter D. Wintle
It can certainly be misleading to take the attributes of a movement, or the anxieties and contradictions of a moment, an — Christopher Hitchens, The Enemy
There are no limitations to the mind except those that we acknowledge. — Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich
Who is fit to be elected?' asked Napoleon. 'A Caesar, an Alexander only comes along once a century, so that election mus — Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Romanovs: 1613-1918
History is always written by the winners. When two cultures clash, the loser is obliterated, and the winner writes the h — Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code
In the legal respect, after the execution of the supposed incendiaries, the other half of Moscow burned down. — Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong po — J. Christopher Herold, Bonaparte in Egypt
Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there has even been, and — Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo
He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history. — Dave Malloy
The educated man, habitually, almost without noticing it, sees the present as something that grows out of a long perspec — C.S. Lewis
Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize. — Napoléon Bonaparte
Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was — Roman Payne
The words you do not speak are as important to the impact you make on other people as the words you do not speak - Tom t — Tom Cunningham
When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison or other extraordinar — Mark Twain, How Nancy Jackson Married Kate Wilson and Other Tales of Rebellious Girls and Daring Young Women
That figure stood for a long time wholly in the light; this arose from a certain legendary dimness evolved by the majori — Victor Hugo, Les Misérables: Volume Two
His [Pitt's] successor as prime minister was Mr. Addington, who was a friend of Mr. Pitt, just as Mr. Pitt was a friend — J. Christopher Herold, The Age of Napoleon
I was not so insane as to attempt to bend events to conform to my policies. On the contrary, I bent my policies to accor — William Duggan, Napoleon's Glance: The Secret of Strategy
Many have rehashed the great works of Plato, and coming forward to the 20th century even Napoleon Hill gave us rehashed — Stephen Richards, NAPS: Discover The Power Of Night Audio Programs