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Napoleon Bonaparte, a military commander and statesman from France, was born on August 15, 1769, and died on May 5, 1821. He is a controversial historical figure who led a series of reforms in France and became a significant figure in French history.

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Famous Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

“Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.”

Said War Remember Enemy Sweet Smell Gentleman Corpses Emperor Total War Roman Emperor

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“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?”

War Enemy Destruction Moderates Disarmament

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“Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally.”

War Known Enemy Allies

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“France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.”

Helping Enemy Army Leaving Command France Troops Frontiers Valor

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“There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once. I see one thing, namely the enemy's main body. I try to crush it, confident that secondary matters will then settle themselves.”

Trying War Matter Body Enemy One Thing Europe Settling Crush

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“The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory.”

War Enemy Principles Army Expenses Republic Territory Basic Principles

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“Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where a surprise is possible. By this means you will have time to unite all your forces before he can attack you.”

Should Mean War Force Loses Enemy Sight Surprise Protected Maxims

Book:Napoleon's Military Maxims

Source: Napoleon's Military Maxims

“A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?”

Ifs Should War Asks Left Enemy Fronts Chiefs What If

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“I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.”

War Enemy Destroyed March

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“In war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence.”

War Shows Enemy Trouble

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“My enemies make appointments at my tomb.”

War Enemy Tombs Appointments

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“It is easier to brave and threaten, than to conquer an enemy.”

War Enemy Easier Brave Conquer

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“We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness.”

Should War Enemy Greater Inspire Boldness Uneasiness

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“Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies.”

Ifs Might Enemy One Day Treated

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“Better to have an open enemy, than hidden friends.”

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“Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.”

Men Views Powerful Opinion Enemy Worst Management Accepted Injury Worst Enemy

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“Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work”

Enemy Worst Mankind Worst Enemy

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“The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.”

Powerful Enemy History Constant Generous Most Powerful

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“Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.”

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.”

Ifs Men Should War Ends Country Would Be Enemy He Man Revolution India China Esteem Beaten Englishmen

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“It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.”

War Reason Desire Wish Enemy Maxims Wish You Approved My Wish

Book:Napoleon's Military Maxims

Source: Napoleon's Military Maxims

“There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying the Prince imposed by an enemy in the hour of victory.”

Nations Hours Enemy Victory Obeying Dishonour

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“For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure ideology. Where each worker may bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our Unification of Thought is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people. With one will. One resolve. One cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death. And we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail!”

“A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.”

Ifs Should Wells Left Enemy Fronts Ought Chiefs Remedy Uncertain Commanders Commander In Chief

Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut

“When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.”

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“Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.”

Process Enemy Destroying Interfere

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“No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.”

Has Beens Fall Causes My Own Enemy Fate

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“Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.”

Should May Said Ideas Turns Enemy Should Have

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“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

“You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.”

“The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.”

Enemy Scene Constant Chaos Winner Battlefields

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“You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.”

War Death Enemy Dying Fear Of Death Total War Lad

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“If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.”

Ifs Past Enemy Hostility Disregard

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“Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.”

Enemy Wrong Things

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“When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.”

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“Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.”

Men Inspirational Happens Waiting Enemy Stranger Faithful Good Man Have Faith Faithful Friends Just Friends

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