Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte’s motivation - 4

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We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

The French complain of everything, and always.

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

I have only one counsel for you - be master.

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

Respect the burden.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

The human race is governed by its imagination

I made all my generals out of mud.

War is the business of barbarians.

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