Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes About History
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I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.
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The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.
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History paints the human heart.
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A battle sometimes decides everything; and sometimes the most trifling thing decides the fate of a battle.
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History is the invention of historians.
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History is a set of lies agreed upon.
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What is history but a fable agreed upon?
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I shall be an Attila to Venice.
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History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.
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It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.
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History is written by the winners.
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If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.
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History is a myth that men agree to believe.
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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