Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte
Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be

Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny. – Napoleon Bonaparte

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Because you are a great lord, you believe yourself to be a great genius. You took the trouble to be born, but no more. – Pierre De Beaumarchais

Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary — they are in the true order. It is the other species of men who are not what they ought to be. – Henri Frederic Amiel

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