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Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

«Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement»
«A Constitution should be short and obscure»
«Time is the great art of man.»
«Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons»
«The first quality for a commander-in-chief is a cool head to receive a correct impression of things. He should not allow himself to be confused by either good or bad news.»
«When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.»
«Character is victory organized.»
«Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit.»
«It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forth his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of h»
«The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.»