拿破仑

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Victory belongs to the most persevering.
坚持必将成功。

法国战神

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
所谓的天才是不断地承受痛楚。

Adversity is the midwife of genius.
逆境造就天才。

Circumstances? I make circumstances!
英雄造时势。

Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities.
人们常只想到自己的需要，而没考虑自己的能力。

Men are moved by only two levers: fear and self interest.
恐惧和兴趣能激励人。

I start out by believing the worst.
我凡事先做好最坏的打算。

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
茍活比牺牲需要更多的勇气。

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
害怕被征服的人，注定要失败。

A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.
敢说的人，就做得到。

I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
我已做了所有的打算，其余就交给上帝了。

Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.
生死有命，没有人能要求多活一秒钟。

If I had not been born Napoleon, I would have liked to have been born Alexander.
如果今天我不是拿破仑的话，我想成为亚历山大。

拿破仑

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
一个人的计划与实践存在太大的落差即是疯狂的表现。

The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.
聪明的人谈现在，愚蠢的人谈过去，傻子才谈未来。

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
 与其后来替一个人婉惜，不如先嘲笑他算了。

What I did is immense. What I had decided to do, and what I had projected were still more so.
我所做的是大事业，而我当初的决定与计划亦是如此。

The word "impossible" is not in my dictionary.
在我的字典里找不到”不可能“这个字。

The man who has made up his mind to win will never say "impossible".
凡是决心取得胜利的人是从来不说“不可能的”。

I succeeded because I willed it; I never hesitated.
我成功是因为我有决心，从不踌躇。

I wished to found a European system, a European Code of Laws, a European judiciary; there would be but one people in Europe.
我想建立一个整合的欧洲体系，包含了法律，法庭，与人种。

The French complain of everything, and always.
法国人终其一生都在抱怨所有的事。

To really understand a man we must judge him in misfortune.
要真正了解一个人，需在不幸中考察他。

There is a moment in every battle at which the least maneuver is decisive and gives superiority as one drop of water causes overflow.
在每一场战争之中，都有那么一刻，运用一点策略就是决定性的并带来优势，正像加一滴水就可以促成溢流一般。