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Show APHORISMS OF GREAT MAN Trite Sayings of Napoleon Have Been Collected and Classified, and Are Worth Attention. Among the Frenchmen who hnvo contributed to gnomic literature Is Napoleon: Na-poleon: "Adversity Ih the midwife of Kenlus." "Love is folly committed by two." "It is Imagination which loses battles." "A good philosopher makes u ,batl citizen." "The uiati the least free Is the man hound to party." These und several hundred other of his truths and half-truths were collected und classified by Jules Rertaut. They bave been translated by II. K. I.uw ami C. I L. Ithoades us' "Napoleon: Iu Ills Own Words." The collection does not pretend to be complete nor to mid anything any-thing new, but It Is sutllclent to mirror the man of action In a striking way. The aphorlsmi, of course, lack consistency con-sistency and continuity, liccuusu Napoleon Na-poleon had no profound moral convictions. convic-tions. He wus no philosopher nor u publicist seeking to mold events by political reason. He was u man of action, ac-tion, who spoke for the immediate effect ef-fect which his words might nceouiplMi a Roman Catholic In Franco and u Mohammedan In Kgypt. ".Simpletons talk of the past, wise men of the pres-cut, pres-cut, and Tools of tho future." The translations are good, hut many a reader read-er would like to Imve the date, chapter chap-ter und verse cited; for half the slg-nllleanct' slg-nllleanct' of a saying often lies In the occasion o:t which It was tittered. |