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What does it mean?
The speaker feels compelled toward a destiny that ends when he is no longer useful.
In plain terms
He feels used until he is gone.
What can you take from it?
Destiny ends when utility ends.

Where it applies

  • leadership
  • service
  • old age

Putting it to work

  • serve your cause
  • accept limits
  • reflect on legacy

Questions to consider

  • What is your purpose?
  • How will you be remembered?

Another view

Not all leaders feel disposable.

More from Napoleon Bonaparte

  1. I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

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  2. If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna.

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  3. I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

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