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13535 quotesThe wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
Wisdom
Nicholas Boileau
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Nations, like men, have their infancy.
Nations
Henry Bolingbroke
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Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
Pride
Henry Bolingbroke
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The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue.
Politicians and Politics
Henry Bolingbroke
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Forget the past and live the present hour.
Present
Sarah Knowles Bolton
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Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other.
Success
Erma Bombeck
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Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. It's literary suicide.
Comedy and Comedians
Erma Bombeck
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The only reason I would take up jogging is so that I could hear heavy breathing again.
Exercise
Erma Bombeck
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Chance is the providence of adventurers.
Chance
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.
Organization
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
Christians and Christianity
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
Doctors
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.
Leaders and Leadership
Napoleon Bonaparte
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From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
History and Historians
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.
Greatness
Napoleon Bonaparte
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If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.
Peace
Napoleon Bonaparte
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If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Promises
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Imagination rules the world.
Imagination
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
Impossibility
Napoleon Bonaparte
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It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.
Martyrdom
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.
Government
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
Mothers
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Let the path be open to talent.
Direction
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Decisions
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Occupation is the scythe of time.
Occupation
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun