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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.
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Order
Question
Theory
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Politics
Stupidity
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Politics
Mistake
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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Death
Cause
Martyr
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
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Life
Religion
God
Sun
The human race is governed by its imagination.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Imagination
Race
Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Credit
Soldiers
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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Time
Action
Thinking
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte
People
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Act
Order
The army is the true nobility of our country.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Army
Country
Nobility
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Chaos
Enemies
Will
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Body
Cure
Mind
Quiet
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Word