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Quirky Classics: Aphorisms and Thoughts
Napoleon Bonaparte
- Alma Books - Quirky Classics
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Publisher | Alma Books - Quirky Classics |
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ISBN | 9781847496782 |
Publication date | January 2017 |
Edition | Paperback |
Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
Pages | 128 |
Language(s) | Eng. ed. |
Description
Spurred by a lifelong fascination with the great emperor, French novelist Honoré de Balzac set himself the painstaking task of collecting a selection of Napoleon’s aphorisms from his public speeches and the gazettes of the time. Arranged 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."
Quirky Classics: Aphorisms and Thoughts