#432 The Mind of Napoleon
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This book is a selection of written and spoken utterances on a variety of subjects grouped according to broad themes and designed to give the reader an insight into the mind of a man who combined energy of thought and energy of action to an exceptional degree. Napoleon was a manipulator of things and men. For Napoleon, each thought is a step to an action. in Napoleon was a radiant power of the mind. That cut through speculation.
Stripping all problems down to their simplest elements. Discarding all obstacles. To action. To his mind. Inaction was unbearable.
He said, Work is my element. I am born and built for work. I have known the limitations of my legs, I have known the limitations of my eyes, I have never been able to know the limitations of my working capacity. Long before he played any political role, he had discarded whatever illusions might have prevented him from playing it. He knows that men have always been the same.
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