Conversations avec General Bertrand à St. Helena
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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!"
„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 <br class="br">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
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 <br class="br">"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
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Address to the Legislative Body (December 1813) https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Napoleon%27s_Addresses/Part_V#Address_to_the_Legislative_Body,_December,_1813.; he here echoes the remark attributed to Louis XIV L'état c'est moi ( "The State is I" or more commonly: "I am the State.")
“The hand that gives is above the hand that takes.”
Italian saying, quoted by Bonaparte during the first Italian campaign to highlight the financial dependence of the Directoire on the plunder from the Army of Italy, according to Lucian S. Regenbogen, Napoléon a dit : aphorismes, citations et opinions, p. 82.
Attributed
Original: La main qui donne est au-dessus de celle qui reçoit.
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“If you make everything difficult, the really hard things seem less so.”
With Napoleon in Russia: The Memoirs of General De Caulaincourt, Duke of Vicenza
Cited in De Laugier, Vicissitudes of the Italian people from 1801 to 1815, to. X, Firenze, 1836, p. 43 – Aless. Zanoli, About the Italian army, historical-statistical outline from 1796 to 1814, vol. II, Milano, 1845, p. 145.
“Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.”
Quelle: Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon's War Maxims: With His Social and Political Thoughts (1804-15), Gale & Polden, (1899) p. 148
As quoted in Memoirs of Count Miot de Melito (1788 - 1815) as translated by Frances Cashel Hoey and John Lillie (1881), Vol. II, p. 94
“Commerce unites men and make them; therefore it is fatal to despotic power.”
Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon's War Maxims: With His Social and Political Thoughts (1804-15), Gale & Polden, (1899) p. 150
“Where do you think you are going? Can’t you see that the battle is won? Come on, stand firm!”
During the final stages of the Battle of Lutzen
“From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.”
Speaking about troubles in the invasions of Russia (10 December 1812), as recorded by Abbé du Pradt, and quoted in History of Europe from the Commencement of the French Revolution in 1789, to the Restoration of the Bourbons in 1815, Vol. 3 (1842) by Sir Archibald Alison, p. 593
Variant translations:
There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
