Napoleon Bonaparte: Frases en inglés (página 11)

Napoleon Bonaparte era político y militar francés. Frases en inglés.
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“I generally had to give in.”

Statement on his relations with the Empress Josephine (19 May 1816), quoted in The Story of Civilization (1935) by Will Durant and Ariel Durant, p. 234

“Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.”

Statement of 1812, quoted in Napoleon's Cavalry and its Leaders (1978) by David Johnson

Les hommes ordinaires ont succombé, disait-il; les hommes de fer ont été faits prisonniers; je ne ramène avec moi que les hommes de bronze.

Mémoires du colonel Combe sur les campagnes de Russie 1812, de Saxe 1813, de France 1814 et 1815. Paris 1853. p. 184 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=KhlYAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA184

“A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people.”

Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848)

“Sentiment de Napoléon sur la divinité de Jésus-Christ (1841), p. 59. Translated: "From first day to the last, he is the same, always the same, majestic and simple, extremely severe and extremely mild in the business of public life, so to speak, Jesus does not hold to any criticism, his prudent manner so delighted admiration by a mixture of strength and gentleness."”

Depuis le premier jour jusqu'au dernier, il est le même, toujours le même, majestueux et simple , infiniment sévère et infiniment doux ; dans un commerce de vie pour ainsi dire public, Jésus ne donne jamais de prise à la moindre critique; sa conduite si prudente ravit l'admiration par un mélange de force et de douceur.

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

As quoted in The Military Quotation Book (2002) by James Charlton, p. 93
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