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Napoleon was a master orator
But we would NOT know this without Balzac
In 1838, Balzac went through all of Napoleon speeches
And saved his best insights in a book
10 bangers from the king👇🏻
1/ "I found the Crown of France lying in the gutter, and picked it up with my sword."
But we would NOT know this without Balzac
In 1838, Balzac went through all of Napoleon speeches
And saved his best insights in a book
10 bangers from the king👇🏻
1/ "I found the Crown of France lying in the gutter, and picked it up with my sword."
1/ Napoleon on freedom:
"If one analyses it, political freedom is an accepted myth thought up by those governing to put the governed to sleep."
Power is always concentrated at the top -
Different political systems and doctrines are merely different ways of hiding this fact
"If one analyses it, political freedom is an accepted myth thought up by those governing to put the governed to sleep."
Power is always concentrated at the top -
Different political systems and doctrines are merely different ways of hiding this fact
2/ Napoleon on Equality:
"Equality exists only in theory."
No man-made political programs can reverse the innate inequality of nature:
"Social law can give all men equal rights. Nature will never give them equal faculties."
"Equality exists only in theory."
No man-made political programs can reverse the innate inequality of nature:
"Social law can give all men equal rights. Nature will never give them equal faculties."
3/ Napoleon on being too precautious:
"The torment of precaution is worse than the dangers it seeks to avoid: it is better to abandon yourself to destiny."
The compulsive need to preempt and predict all problems is its own type of hell
Over preparation is cowardice by proxy
"The torment of precaution is worse than the dangers it seeks to avoid: it is better to abandon yourself to destiny."
The compulsive need to preempt and predict all problems is its own type of hell
Over preparation is cowardice by proxy
4/ Napoleon on the French Revolution:
"The nobility would have survived if it had known how to master the writing desk"
Public opinion ended nobility as much as violent force
The nobles failed to convince the public that they served a valuable role
Media always matters...
"The nobility would have survived if it had known how to master the writing desk"
Public opinion ended nobility as much as violent force
The nobles failed to convince the public that they served a valuable role
Media always matters...
5/ Napoleon on how to POLICE:
"The art of the police consists in punishing rarely and severely"
Power should mostly be invisible from people's everyday lives:
"Authority should make itself felt as little as possible and should not weigh on the people needlessly"
"The art of the police consists in punishing rarely and severely"
Power should mostly be invisible from people's everyday lives:
"Authority should make itself felt as little as possible and should not weigh on the people needlessly"
6/ Napoleon on how logic bros lose wars:
"There are men who, because of their physical and moral constitution, tend to schematize everything: whatever their knowledge, intellect, or courage, nature has not brought them here to command an army"
Don't get lost in abstraction
"There are men who, because of their physical and moral constitution, tend to schematize everything: whatever their knowledge, intellect, or courage, nature has not brought them here to command an army"
Don't get lost in abstraction
7/ Napoleon on genius:
"Misfortune is the midwife of genius."
No training module or a certified program can pull out a person's best like a brush with tragedy can
"Misfortune is the midwife of genius."
No training module or a certified program can pull out a person's best like a brush with tragedy can
8/ Napoleon on Democracy and Despotism:
"Democratic governments border on anarchy, monarchy on despotism. Anarchy is powerless; despotism can do great things"
Napoleon believed in the madness of crowds, as opposed to their wisdom:
"The people must be saved against their will"
"Democratic governments border on anarchy, monarchy on despotism. Anarchy is powerless; despotism can do great things"
Napoleon believed in the madness of crowds, as opposed to their wisdom:
"The people must be saved against their will"
9/ People think the powerful are evil but THIS is the real motivation behind men who get into history books. Power is not the end point but the beginning. To have power is to have the space, tools, and time to be creative. To birth something from nothing. Napoleon said it best👇🏻
10/ Napoleon on Courage:
"Courage can't be counterfeited - it's a virtue which escapes hypocrisy."
You can pretend to be kind
You can pretend to be intelligent
But you can't pretend to be brave
Courage is unfakeable
"Courage can't be counterfeited - it's a virtue which escapes hypocrisy."
You can pretend to be kind
You can pretend to be intelligent
But you can't pretend to be brave
Courage is unfakeable
Thank you for reading fren
I've collected more Napoleon aphorisms in this collection
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I've collected more Napoleon aphorisms in this collection
Enjoy 👇🏻
new.memod.com/jashdholani/co…
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