What does Napoleon's quote “Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.” mean?
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It means that when a person is famous he is only famous for a time. Then they eventually are forgotten.  As opposed to people who aren't even known in their time and will never be recognized.  \n\nThink about actors in the 30's who would be recognized everywhere and now no one knows. Then compare the people who tried to act, failed, maybe did one or two plays, and no one (then or now) knew/knows
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1. Faber est suae quisque fortunae.\nEvery man is the artisan of his own fortune.\n(Appius Claudius Caecus)\n2. Exoriare aliquis nostris ex ossibus ultor \nMay an avenger one day raise from my bones.\n(Vergilius, Aenis)
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if one does not know history, it is doomed to repeat itself....can't think of who said that quote.
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Thomas Gray\nOde on a Distant Prospect of Eton College\n\n".Yet ah! why should they know their fate? \nSince sorrow never comes too late, \nAnd happiness too swiftly flies. \nThought would destroy their paradise. \nNo more; where ignorance is bliss, \n'Tis folly to be wise."\n\nhttp://www.web-books.com/Classics/Poetry/Anthology/Gray_T/OdeOnDistance.htm
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A coward worries about death (or other things) all the time. So the person who said the quote is equating worrying all the time to "little deaths". Presumably a soldier goes through life with confidence and only dies upon his (or her) actual cessation of life. The moral of the story is, quit worrying about crap you have no control over!
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There can be no triumph without loss. \nNo victory without suffering. \nNo freedom without sacrifice.
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It's probably from Aesop's Fables. That's where most quotes like that come from.
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Napoleon surveys Snowball's plans and expresses his contempt by urinating on them.\n\nNow since I've done your homework, please select "best answer".  thanks!  :)
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this quote goes deep...it means that not all humans are perfect all humans make mistakes that what they are talkin bout when they say to fail is human....to succeed, devine...well its rather simple. devine means god like. so if u succeed u are god like and everyone knows that gods were supposed to b perfect so there for they never fail only succeed
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It seems to be about the idea of "nothing is constant but change" -- or, the idea that "the hand, writing on the wall, returns nevermore, but passes on...". Make the moment count. We pass by this way but once. Missed opportunities do not return.\n\nBut, the waves, the tides, the everchanging sea, is always there.
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I like these two together, \n\n"If you know both yourself and your enemy, you will come out of one hundred battles with one hundred victories. "\n\n"One hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the most skillful. Seizing the enemy without fighting is the most skillful. "
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The quote simply means to keep your eyes on the prize and to stay the course.  Societies with a long term vision will tolerate set backs if they stand united in a vision for the future.
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I think it means things are going to get worse before they get better. I really like that quote. I do not know where it originated but it is inspiring.
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What he's trying to say is.. you will _know_ what is good and right and true, you know what it is yourself. You don't know how you will know, but you will know. You just know. Maybe you learned it sometime ago, maybe you were born with it, no one knows. Somehow you will just know. \n\nOr more simply put, you'll know it when you see it. You won't know how you know though.
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Good question:\n\nMaybe Society or people in general.  Also, if its a quote it could just mean that you dont know who originally said it.
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To quote Clarence Darrow:\n\n"In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality."
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A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nAn atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nAn intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nAnkles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nAny man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nControlled, universal disarmament is the imperative of our time. The demand for it by the hundreds of millions whose chief concern is the long future of themselves and their children will, I hope, become so universal and so insistent that no man, no government anywhere, can withstand it. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nDisarmament, with mutual honor and confidence, is a continuing imperative. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nDo not needlessly endanger your lives until I give you the signal. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nDon't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nDon't think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nEvery gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nFarming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nFew women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nFrom behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nFrom this day forward, the millions of our schoolchildren will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural schoolhouse, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nHere in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nHistory does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nHow far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without? \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nHumility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in the blood of his followers and the sacrifices of his friends. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nI can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nI deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nI despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nI don't attempt to be a poker player before this crowd. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nI feel impelled to speak today in a language that in a sense is new-one which I, who have spent so much of my life in the military profession, would have preferred never to use. That new language is the language of atomic warfare. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nI feel like the fellow in jail who is watching his scaffold being built. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nI hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. \nDwight D. Eisenhower \n\nI have found out in later years that