More from Napoleon Bonaparte

  1. If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
  2. In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.
  3. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
  4. In choosing a wife, a man does not renounce his mother, and still less is he justified in breaking her heart.
  5. If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
  6. In great crisis, it is the lot of women to soften our misfortunes.
  7. If the whole world was a state, Istanbul would be the capital of it.
  8. In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

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