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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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Death, Daily, Live
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. - Napoleon Bonaparte
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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Wisdom, Yourself, You
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
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Love, Hope, Courage
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
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Impossible, Fools, Word
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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More, Four, Feared
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. - Napoleon Bonaparte
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
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Wisdom, Determination
Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
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Win, Soldiers, Credit
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. - Napoleon Bonaparte
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
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Man, Fight, Rights
Medicines are only fit for old people.
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People, Old, Old People
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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Time, Thinking, Action
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
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Self, Destiny, Better
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. - Napoleon Bonaparte
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
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Defeat, Who, Fears
Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Good, Passion, Great
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. - Napoleon Bonaparte
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
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Look, Down, Heights
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man. - Napoleon Bonaparte
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
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Man, Honest, Poor
With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything. - Napoleon Bonaparte
With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
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Everything, Anything
History is a set of lies agreed upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
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History, Lies, Agreed
A true man hates no one. - Napoleon Bonaparte
A true man hates no one.
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Man, True, Hates
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I Am, Government, Lion
What is history but a fable agreed upon? - Napoleon Bonaparte
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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History, Fable, Agreed
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
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Great, Men, Small
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague. - Napoleon Bonaparte
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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Crime, Like, Plague
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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Great, Madness, Proof
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. - Napoleon Bonaparte
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
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Power, Never, Prevent
Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
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Night, Clothes, You
France has more need of me than I have need of France. - Napoleon Bonaparte
France has more need of me than I have need of France.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Me, Need, More
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Biography

Nationality: French
Type: Leader
Born: August 15, 1769
Died: May 5, 1821
Napoleon is famous for his military acumen, thirst for power, and the Louisiana Purchase - yet few people know he inadvertently helped create the... Read full biography
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