"Put your iron hand in a velvet..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.
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“If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.”
“If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.”
“Adversity is the midwife of genius”
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“A man who cannot seduce men cannot save them either.”
“The highest thinkers of the ages, the seers of the tribes and the nations, have been optimists.”
“A prince... must learn from the fox and the lion... One must be a fox in order to recognize traps, and a lion to frighten off wolves. Those who act simply as lions are stupid. So it follows that a prudent ruler cannot, and must not, honour his word when it places him at a disadvantage and when the reasons for which he made his promise no longer exist.”
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“Therefore, it is necessary to be a fox to discover the snares and a lion to terrify the wolves”
“What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?”
“Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more.”