Consider: Napoleon caused the deaths of between 3 and 7 million people (i.e. He's not coherent at all - he's both an anti-intellectual 'man of action' and a shiny-eyed Enlightenment rationalist Machiavellian bastard and Aristotelian virtue-seeker imperial elitist and populist revolutionary. there's praise for Muhammad here, lots of fearless anticlerical scepticism, lots of examination of despots. Not very good, mostly. He's obviously truly independent - e.g. Consider: Napoleon caused the deaths of between 3 and 7 Compiled by Honore de Balzac, one wonders how carefully. Arranged into four themes (covering social life, the military arts, the exercise of power and the teachings of experience and misfortune), Napoleo Spurred by a lifelong fascination with the great emperor, French novelist Honore de Balzac set himself the pains-taking task of collecting a selection of Napoleon's aphorisms from his public speeches and the gazettes of the time.Īrranged into four themes (covering social life, the military arts, the exercise of power and the teachings of experience and misfortune), Napoleon's pithy pills of wisdom - often Machiavellian, cynical, dry and sometimes cruel - offer a unique insight into the mind of a man who prided himself on preferring action over thought and the sword over the pen, and conjure up one of the most eminent and influential historical figures of all time.moreĬompiled by Honore de Balzac, one wonders how carefully.

Spurred by a lifelong fascination with the great emperor, French novelist Honore de Balzac set himself the pains-taking task of collecting a selection of Napoleon's aphorisms from his public speeches and the gazettes of the time.

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