French - Leader | August 15, 1769 - May 5, 1821
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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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.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
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The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
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A Constitution should be short and obscure.
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The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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All religions have been made by men.
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