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Just as Napoleon was the sole authority in the state, so the husband and father was to exercise authority over his family. Unfortunately the only possible result of despotism on either level is hypocrisy. ↗


— J. Christopher Herold


#family-values #hypocrisy #napoleon #age

The English soldier was probably the worst-treated soldier in Europe, and judging from the English casualty rates during the Napoleonic wars, English generals were more lavish with their soldiers' lives than were their French and German colleagues. ↗


— J. Christopher Herold


#napoleonic-wars #soldiers #age

The war against Napoleon was won not by England but by Russia, Austria, and Prussia; but England won the last battle and she won the peace. ↗


— J. Christopher Herold


#napoleonic-wars #age

There is, of course, nothing wrong in a program that aims to please everybody, except that as a rule it is a prelude to dictatorship. ↗


— J. Christopher Herold


#napoleon #age

A provisional government was appointed on April 1 (it consisted mainly of Talleyrand's whist partners), and the following day the Senate, on Talleyrand's urging, declared Napoleon deposed. ↗


— J. Christopher Herold


#talleyrand #age

Napoleon loved only himself, but, unlike Hitler, he hated nobody. ↗


— J. Christopher Herold


#hitler #napoleon #age

He always applied all his means, all his faculties, all his attention to the action or discussion of the moment, into everything he put passion. Hence the enormous advantage he had over his adversaries, for few people are entirely absorbed by one thought, or one action at one moment. ↗


— Caulaincourt on Napoleon


#inspiration #napoleon-boneparte #passion #thought #inspirational

Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize. ↗


— Napoleon Bonaparte


#music #napoleon #music

Napoleon was probably the equal at least of Washington in intellect, his superior in education. Both of them were successful in serving the state. ↗


— Matthew Simpson


#education #equal #his #intellect #least

Washington and the elder Napoleon. Both were brave men; both were true men; both loved their country and dared to expose their lives for their country's cause. ↗


— Matthew Simpson


#brave #brave men #cause #country #dared






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