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A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Leader

Hope

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Power

Conquest

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Want

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Slander

History is a set of lies agreed upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

History

Lies

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

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.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Government

Lies

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.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Men

Vices

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

A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Man

Wishing

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

Imagination rules the world.

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Fools

Word