{"id":1895,"date":"2018-01-18T12:44:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T17:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1895"},"modified":"2018-01-21T10:58:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-21T15:58:11","slug":"more-of-napoleon%e2%80%99s-bon-mots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=1895","title":{"rendered":"More of Napoleon\u2019s bons mots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More insight from Napoleon Bonaparte:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.<\/li>\n<li>A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.<\/li>\n<li>The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one&#8217;s self to destiny.<\/li>\n<li>Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.<\/li>\n<li>As to moral courage, I have very rarely met with the two o&#8217;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.<\/li>\n<li>The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.<\/li>\n<li>How many really capable men are children more than once during the day?<\/li>\n<li>All the scholastic scaffolding falls, as a ruined edifice, before a single word: faith.<\/li>\n<li>If they want peace, nations should avoid the pinpricks that precede cannon shots.<\/li>\n<li>10 persons who speak make more noise than 10,000 who are silent.<\/li>\n<li>Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.<\/li>\n<li>You may ask me for anything you like except time.<\/li>\n<li>Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men.<\/li>\n<li>If you start to take Vienna &#8211; take Vienna.<\/li>\n<li>Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.<\/li>\n<li>One must change one&#8217;s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one&#8217;s superiority.<\/li>\n<li>This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten, and goes on fighting.<\/li>\n<li>The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.<\/li>\n<li>My downfall raises me to infinite heights.<\/li>\n<li>Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Chris George provides reliable PR &amp; GR counsel and effective advocacy. Need a go-to writer and experienced communicator? Call 613-983-0801 @<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/cgacommunications.com\/m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CG&amp;A COMMUNICATIONS<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s self to destiny. Men take only their needs into consideration, never&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[48,23,36],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1895"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9432,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1895\/revisions\/9432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}