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61 " You tell me that class distinctions are baubles used by monarchs, I defy you to show me a republic, ancient or modern, in which distinctions have not existed. You call these medals and ribbons baubles; well, it is with such baubles that men are led. I would not say this in public, but in a assembly of wise statesmen it should be said. I don't think that the French love liberty and equality: the French are not changed by ten years of revolution: they are what the Gauls were, fierce and fickle. They have one feeling: honour. We must nourish that feeling. The people clamour for distinction. See how the crowd is awed by the medals and orders worn by foreign diplomats. We must recreate these distinctions. There has been too much tearing down; we must rebuild. A government exists, yes and power, but the nation itself - what is it? Scattered grains of sand. "
― Napoléon Bonaparte
62 " In war, the moral is to the physical as ten to one. "
63 " Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever "
64 " in this life we are either kings or pawns emperors and fools "
65 " I love power like a musician loves music. "
66 " Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure. "
67 " Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. "
68 " It requires more courage to suffer than to die "
69 " The poor man and the beggar are two quite different classes: one commands respect, the other arouses anger. "
― Napoléon Bonaparte , Aphorisms and Thoughts
70 " The inevitable fate of large groups is to perish because of lack of unity. "
71 " We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him. "
72 " All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything. "
73 " In religion I do not see the mystery of the Incarnation, but the mystery of the social order. It associates with Heaven an idea of equality that keeps rich men from being massacred by the poor…Society is impossible without inequality, inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion. "
74 " The men who have changed the world never succeeded by winning over the powerful, but always by stirring the masses. The first method is a resort to intrigue and only brings limited result. The latter is the course of genius and changes the face of the world. "
75 " Sirs, if it were not for that one red spot I would have conquered the world!!! "
76 " „Es gibt kein gutmütigeres, aber auch kein leichtgläubigeres Volk als das deutsche. Keine Lüge kann grob genug ersonnen werden, die Deutschen glauben sie. Um eine Parole, die man ihnen gab, verfolgen sie ihre Landsleute mit größerer Erbitterung als ihre wirklichen Feinde. "
77 " Din, fakirlerin zenginleri öldürmesine engel olur. "
― Napoléon Bonaparte , Napoleon in His Own Words from the French of Jules Bertaut
78 " Give me enough medals and I’ll win you any war "
― Napoléon Bonaparte , Napoleon's Art of War
79 " Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. "
80 " On peut s'arrêter quand on monte, jamais quand on descend. "