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Mais Esperto que o Diabo: O mistério revelado da liberdade e do sucesso (Portuguese Edition)
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Napoleon befriend the Regiment who watch over Longwood House. Napoleon have some small talks with them using Las Cases (the guy who wrote the Memorial) as a translator, I know he gets pretty well with the scottish troops to whom he flattered the ego, spoke of the Auld Alliance, Celtic History and their reputation of great warrior. Hudso... See more
Napoleon befriend the Regiment who watch over Longwood House. Napoleon have some small talks with them using Las Cases (the guy who wrote the Memorial) as a translator, I know he gets pretty well with the scottish troops to whom he flattered the ego, spoke of the Auld Alliance, Celtic History and their reputation of great warrior. Hudso... See more
Saint Helena
Harvey Mansfield at 93 did a 3-hour interview with no break, sharp as ever.
Here is the final product, a masterclass on Machiavelli: the Anti-Christ.
According to Mansfield, Machiavelli is the very founder of modernity, responsible for establishing the very world you and I live in. He is the... See more
Johnathan Bix.com
Dans ses fantasmes de domination et de toute-puissance, il lui arrivait maintenant de s'identifier à Napoléon. Il admirait cet homme qui avait mis l'Europe à feu et à sang, qui avait entraîné à la mort des centaines de milliers d'êtres humains sans même l'excuse d'une idéologie, d'une croyance, d'une conviction quelconque. Contrairement à Hitler, c
... See moreMichel Houellebecq • Les particules élémentaires (French Edition)
Napoleon shared Paine’s stance and, early on in his rule, was the first Western leader openly to begin instituting what he was to term a system of ‘carrières ouvertes aux talents’, ‘careers open to talent’. ‘I made most of my generals de la boue,’ he proudly remarked on St Helena at the end of his life. ‘Whenever I found talent, I rewarded it.’ The
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