>'Do you know how I managed?' Napoleon later recalled of this period of his life. 'By never entering a café or going into society; by eating dry bread, and brushing my own clothes so that they might last the longer. I lived like a bear, in a little room, with books for my only friends... These were the joys and debaucheries of my youth.’

>>24512541 (OP)
Supposedly he read Sorrows of Young Werther many times

>>24512541 (OP)
i do this too so where is my napoleonic arc bro?

>>24512578
He had an extensive library but also read contemporary novels yes
On his way to Russia he visited Goethe and totally fanboyed out on him

>>24512578
Makes sense why he put Josephine's pussy on such a high a pedestal then

>'By never entering a café or going into society; by eating dry bread, and brushing my own clothes so that they might last the longer. I lived like a bear, in a little room, with books for my only friends

i do this too but i just get called a loser with no frens

>>24512541 (OP)
Julius Caesar

>>24512643
This, Caesar actually wrote something great, which cannot be said for any other great conqueror.

>inb4 anti-machiavel
>inb4 mein kampf

>"Machiavel's The Prince is to ethics what the work of Spinoza is to faith. Spinoza sapped the fundamentals of faith, and drained the spirit of religion; Machiavel corrupted policy, and undertook to destroy the precepts of healthy morals: the errors of the first were only errors of speculation, but those of the other had a practical thrust. [...] I always have regarded The Prince as one of the most dangerous works which were spread in the world; it is a book which falls naturally into the hands of princes, and of those who have a taste for policy. [...] There is a real injustice in concluding that the rotten apples are representative of all of them.

>It is thus the justice (one would have to say) which must be the main responsibility of a sovereign. Since it is the prime interest of the many people whom they control, they must give it priority over any other interest of their own. What then becomes of Machiavel's recommendations of naked self-interest, self-aggrandizement, unleashed ambition and despotism? The sovereign, far from being the absolute Master of the people which are under his domination, is only the first servant."

>>24512737
>On Tuesday, July 18, I found tall Sir Thomas Robinson sitting with Johnson. Sir Thomas said, that the king of Prussia valued himself upon three things;—upon being a hero, a musician, and an authour. JOHNSON. 'Pretty well, Sir, for one man. As to his being an authour, I have not looked at his poetry; but his prose is poor stuff. He writes just as you might suppose Voltaire's footboy to do, who has been his amanuensis. He has such parts as the valet might have, and about as much of the colouring of the style as might be got by transcribing his works.' When I was at Ferney, I repeated this to Voltaire, in order to reconcile him somewhat to Johnson, whom he, in affecting the English mode of expression, had previously characterised as 'a superstitious dog;' but after hearing such a criticism on Frederick the Great, with whom he was then on bad terms, he exclaimed, 'An honest fellow!'

>>24512584
You have to find a pawnbroker bitch and see if she'll give you a few kopecks for your watch

>>24512664
They had ghostwriters back then too

Napoleon was the greatest man that has ever lived

>>24512931
Nice C&P reference

>>24512592
Unlike Werther, he dropped his boring, stuck up infertile mommy gf and impregnated a polak with big tits

>>24512578
he wrote a fanfic version didn't he?

>>24512751
heh

>>24512751
Translationfags filtered since time immemorial?

>>24512541 (OP)
Iirc napoleon loved celtic mythology but the book he loved so much was a fraud

>>24512541 (OP)
That would be FDR

>>24513671
He was an Ossian fanboy like most people in the early years of Romanticism. Although some people still dispute the idea that it was a fraud.

>>24512578
and yet he didn't kill himself. curios

>>24513135
He actually did !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clisson_et_Eug%C3%A9nie

>>24514703
I don't understand the appeal of Young Werther. So he's pussy whipped and it ends there. The most exciting thing to happen was the one line devoted to the murder of someone else who had nothing to do with him or the story.