Aphorisms

by Napoléon Bonaparte

Spurred by a lifelong fascination with the great emperor, French novelist Honor de Balzac set himself the pains-taking 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847496784
• ISBN13: 9781847496782
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Alma Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.3" x 5.9"