Letter to Joseph Fesch (Primary source)
Young Napoleon asks his uncle for 300 francs to travel to Paris, boldly predicting his success despite his financial struggles.
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“That is just it, work is my element; I was born and made for it. I have found the limits of my legs; I have found the limits of my eyes; but I have never been able to find the limits of my labour.”
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— Napoleon Bonaparte (verified, secondary source)“Intelligence precedes force. Force itself is nothing without intelligence. In the heroic age the leader was the strongest man; with civilization he has become the most intelligent of the brave.”
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“Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one makes you but even with him; forgiving, it sets you above him.”
— Benjamin Franklin (verified)“Education is that which remains, if one has forgotten everything he learned in school.”
— Albert Einstein (verified)“You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war.”
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