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Vor der Schlacht bei den Pyramiden, 21. Juli 1798
Original franz.: "Soldats, songez que du haut de ces pyramides quarante siècles vous contemplent!"
Brief an Talleyrand vom 12. März 1807, zitiert bei Hugo Friedrich Philipp Johann Freiherr von Freytag-Loringhoven: Die Heerführung Napoleons in ihrer Bedeutung für unsere Zeit (1910) S. 27 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=4MkJAAAAIAAJ&q=Kinderspiel
"Aujourd'hui le sort de l'Europe et les plus grands calculs dépendent des subsistances. Battre les Russes, si j'ai du pain, c'est un enfantillage." - Correspondance (1863) p. 432 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=z63SAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA432&dq=enfantillage
„Vom Erhabenen zum Lächerlichen ist nur ein Schritt.“
10. Dezember 1812 in Warschau, nach Friedrich Saalfeld: Geschichte Napoleon Buonaparte's. 2. Band. F. A. Brockhaus 1817 S. 477 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=KOBBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA477&dq=Erhabenen & 479
Original franz.: "Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas." - Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon 1906 bei zeno.org http://www.zeno.org/nid/20006523668
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Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Letter to his brother, as quoted in The Age of Napoleon (2002) by J. Christopher Herold, p. 8
“If I had succeeded, I would have been the greatest man known to history.”
As quoted in The Tyrants : 2500 Years of Absolute Power and Corruption (2006) by Clive Foss ISBN 1905204965
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Often paraphrased as “Religion keeps the poor from killing the rich.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Bonaparte has advanced with great strides, but he will never enter Paris.”
Le Moniteur Universel, March 19, 1815.
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“The true conquests, the only ones that cause no regret, are those made over ignorance.”
(November 26, 1797) as quoted in Andrew Roberts Napoleon: A Life p. 157
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.”
Quelle: Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848), p. 30
On awards, as quoted in Mémoires sur le Consulat. 1799 à 1804 (1827) by Antoine-Claire, Comte Thibaudeau. Chez Ponthieu, pp. 83–84. Original: "On appelle cela des hochets; eh bien! c'est avec des hochets que l'on mène les hommes… Croyez-vous que vous feríez battre des hommes par l'analyse? Jamais. Elle n'est bonne que pour le savant dans son cabinet. Il faut au soldat de la gloire, des distinctions, des récomponses."
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“Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“I used to say of him that his presence on the field made the difference of forty thousand men.”
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, spoken statement (2 November 1831), as quoted in Notes of Conversations with the Duke of Wellington (1886) by Philip Henry Stanhope
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As quoted in The British in Egypt (1971) by Peter Mansfield, p. 1
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Addressing members of the Catholic clergy assembled during ‘Bonaparte's Conference with the Catholic and Protestant clergy at Breda,’ May 1, 1810 (originally reported in the Gazette of Dorpt), as quoted in The life of Napoleon Bonaparte, emperor of the French: with a preliminary view of the French revolution, Sir Walter Scott, Philadelphia: Leary & Getz, 1857, p. 91 http://books.google.com/books?id=6yEMAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA1-PA91&dq=%22you+reptiles+of+the+earth%22&lr=&cd=1#v=onepage&q=%22you%20reptiles%20of%20the%20earth%22&f=false
Variant translation: God placed me on the throne, and you reptiles of the earth dare oppose me. I owe no account of my administration to the pope,— only to God and Jesus Christ.
As quoted in The Christian Observer, Volume 10, 1861, p. 261 http://books.google.com/books?id=mc8WAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA261&dq=%22you+reptiles+of+the+earth%22&lr=&cd=2#v=onepage&q=%22you%20reptiles%20of%20the%20earth%22&f=false
“Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Le Moniteur Universel, March 22, 1815.
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“It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
