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Show SOME OF NAPOLEON'S MAXIMS Ideas of Great Soldier nnd Statesman That Are Worthy of Being Placed on Record. Tho following are eome of Napoleon's Napo-leon's maxims, taken from H. A. L. Fisher's "Napoleon" In the Home University Uni-versity library: "Unity of command la a first necessity neces-sity of war." "fcove le the occupation of tho MU nan, the distraction of the warrior,, the stumbling block of the sovereign "The first quality at a commaaetar In-chief is a eool kead." "He lies too Much. One may' very well He sometimes, but always la too much." "A great captain ought to My to himself several 'times a day: If the enemy appear on my front, my right or my left, what should I.doT If ha finds himself embarrassed he Is HI posted." "When a king Is said to be a kind man the .reign Is a failure." "Heart! How the dovll do you know what your heart Is? It Is a bit of you .crossed by a big vein In which tho blood goes quicker when you run." "The heart of a statesman should be In his head." "High tragedy Is tho school of great men. It Is the duty of sovereigns to encourage and spread It. Tragedy warms the soul, raises the heart, can and ought to create heroes." "Bleeding enters Into the combination combina-tion of political medicine." "The vice of our modern Institutions Institu-tions Is that they have nothing which appeals to the Imaginations. Man can only bo governed through Imagination. Imagina-tion. Without It ho la a brute." "Conscription Is the eternal root of a nation, purifying Its morality and framing all Its habits." "I regard myself as probably the most daring man in war who haa ever existed." "Love of country is the first virtu of civilized man." "There are only two nations East and West." |