Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes on Reputation
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Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.
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They think I am stern, even hardhearted. So much the better- this makes it unnecessary for me to justify my reputation. My firmness is taken for callousness. I shall not complain, since this notion is responsible for the good order that is prevailing, so that there is nothing that needs to be repressed.