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He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about history

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about events, past, history, people

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about secret

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

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I have only one counsel for you - be master.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about moral, contentment

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about love, power, artists

I made all my generals out of mud.

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If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius where reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others;...

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about unforeseen, circumstances, genius, thinking

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about sun, religion, god, life

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about nation, peace

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about things, contentment

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about promise, wish, success, nothing, world, contentment

Imagination rules the world.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about rules, imagination, world

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about impossible, word

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about question, order

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about stupidity, politics

In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about mistake, politics

It is the cause and not the death that makes the martyr.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about death

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about death