It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished.
Napoléon BonaparteIn war, theory is all right so far as general principles are concerned; but in reducing general principles to practice there will always be danger. Theory and practice are the axis about which the sphere of accomplishment revolves.
Napoléon BonaparteHe who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.
Napoléon BonaparteThere is a joy in danger.
Napoléon BonaparteCourage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
Napoléon BonaparteThe most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.
Napoléon BonaparteA commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it.
Napoléon BonaparteWe are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost.
Napoléon BonaparteThe laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.
Napoléon BonaparteWe frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.
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