Quote #125

Let China sleep. For when China wakes, it will shake the world.

More from Napoleon Bonaparte

  1. It would have been better for the peace of France if this man had never existed.
  2. Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
  3. It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
  4. Men are moved by two levers only- fear and self interest.
  5. It is the province of honest men to enlighten the government.
  6. Men take only their needs into consideration-never their abilities.
  7. It is the cause, and not the death, that makes the martyr.
  8. My motto has always been: A career open to all talents, without distinctions of birth.

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