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“Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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From first to last, Jesus is the same; always the same—majestic and simple, infinitely severe and infinitely gentle.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

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The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not correspond to the difficulties which all existence contains. Let it be rejected, and the whole world is an enigma; let it be accepted, and we possess a wonderful explanation of the history of man.

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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

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You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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