More insight from Napoleon Bonaparte:
- He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
- A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
- The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.
- Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
- To do all that one is able to do is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.
- Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.
- As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o’clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage, that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion, and which, in spite of the most unforeseen events, leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.
- The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
- How many really capable men are children more than once during the day?
- All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.
- If they want peace, nations should avoid the pinpricks that precede cannon shots.
- 10 persons who speak make more noise than 10,000 who are silent.
- Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
- You may ask me for anything you like except time.
- Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men.
- If you start to take Vienna – take Vienna.
- Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.
- One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.
- This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten, and goes on fighting.
- The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.
- My downfall raises me to infinite heights.
- Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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