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The ablest of historic figures in his own words
Napoleon and Pascal are the two finest minds I have encountered and are unrivalled as students of the human heart. They are as penetrating as Dostoyevsky and more logical. This work and Pensees illuminate the human condition with unmatched clarity.
Napoleon was an undisputed genius, and no man of comparable intellect had such a wide experience of life. Here he tells us
what existence taught him about men, love, war, politics and God. Here is philosophy wrung from a life of unparalleled incident
and as such the emperor is suitably humble, surprisingly likeable, and unflinchingly honest. 'A man is only a man, if circumstances are not favourable he is nothing'. 'All my life I have sacrificed evrything - comfort, self-interest, happiness - to my
destiny.' 'I have never doubted God. For if my reason did not suffice to understand him, yet my inner feeling accepted him.'
'Only a madman can die without a confessor.' Mr. Herold's book does not contain all of the great man's insights, but it is the
best starting point available.

Columbia University Press  ISBN 0231085230

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