More from Napoleon Bonaparte

  1. Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the latter than the former. Space we can recover, lost time …
  2. Such work as mine is not done twice in a century. I saved the Revolution as it lay dying, I have cleansed it of its crimes and have held it…
  3. Speeches pass away, but acts remain.
  4. Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
  5. Some men have sufficient strength of mind to change their disposition, or at least to yield to imperative circumstances.
  6. The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
  7. So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.
  8. The allies we gain by victory, will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.

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