Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes on Death

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  1. The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.

  2. Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.

  3. Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

  4. Death may expiate faults, but cannot repair them.

  5. Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

  6. I feel as if I am being driven towards an unknown goal. As soon as it is attained and there will no longer be any use for me, an atom will be sufficient to annihilate me; but until then, all human efforts whether in Paris or in the army will be powerless to prevail against me.

  7. To abandon oneself to despair without a struggle, to commit suicide as a relief, is like leaving the field of battle before we have vanquished the enemy.

  8. When he who measures the duration of life has pronounced his secret, all the sciences of humanity are but useless essays.

  9. You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

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