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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

More from Napoleon Bonaparte

  1. You cannot treat with all the world at once.
  2. A leader is a dealer in hope.
  3. When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.
  4. A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction; you must speak to the soul in order to electrify him.
  5. The life of a citizen is the property of his country.
  6. A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
  7. Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some …
  8. A man like me troubles himself little about the lives of a million men

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  • reality
  • reputation
  • fame
  • perception

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