Napoleon Quote: The best way to keep your word is not to give it!

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• History is a set of agreed-upon lies.

• History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree on.

• I am sometimes a fox, sometimes a lion. The whole secret of being governed is knowing when to be a fox and when to play.

• I adore power. But I adore him as an artist. I adore it as an artist adores his violin, to produce from it sounds, chords and harmonies.

• If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

• If you want things done right, do it yourself.

• If you want to have success, don't promise anything, don't announce anything.

• Impossible is a word that can only be found in the dictionaries of fools.

• To govern does not mean to apply a theory, but to build with whatever material you have in your hands.

• In politics… never back down… never back down… never admit a mistake.

• It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.

• People are better guided by their vices than by their virtues.

• People are driven by only two drives: fear and self-interest.

• People only value needs – never skills.

• Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is bigger than we remember.

• Power is my mistress. I've tried so hard to conquer it that I won't let anyone take it away from me.

• Public opinion is the thermometer that a monarch must watch regularly.

• Wealth is not having treasures, but knowing how to use them.

• Usually the soldiers win the battles, the generals get the glory.

• Ten people talking make more noise than a thousand silent people.

• The surest way to stay poor is to be honest.

• Victory belongs to the one who perseveres the most.

• War is the business of barbarians.

• The best way to keep your word is not to give it. /Tirana Observer/