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A man becomes the creature of his uniform.

Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it can be justified. It certainly originates in that species of fear which we denominate poltroonery. For what claim can that man have to courage who trembles at the frowns of fort

It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.

In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.

My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what will live forever, is my Civil Code.

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.

Whatever you ardently and passionately desire, that you obtain.

It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.

He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets. Napoleon Bonapart

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. Napoleon Bonap

The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics

You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her decks? I have no time for such nonsense.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. Napoleon Bonap

Force is the law of animals, men are ruled by conviction.

Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.

What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the things we most need to know? We live and die in the midst of marvels.

Men are ruled by toys.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.

Do not talk to me of goodness, of abstract justice, of nature law. Necessity is the highest law, public welfare is the highest justice.

Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.

What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!

The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.

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