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/lit/ to become a man against time?

>> No.15084148

It depends on what exactly you're doing and how you're doing it.

>> No.15084186

>>15084087
>that bulge

>> No.15084232

>>15084087
Was the fact that Napoleon ultimately unvictorious make him lesser to AtG? Or considering the circumstances (a decaying empire versus a coalition of several empires near their peaks) is their Greatness closer?

>> No.15084236

>>15084087
When and where can we expect the next Napoleon? I can't see him coming from the US.

>> No.15084247

Are you willing to die for glory?
are you willing to put everything you love for glory?
are you willing to be hated for it?

>> No.15084261
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>>15084236

>> No.15084266

>>15084261
As if

>> No.15084276

>>15084236
Never

If a leader was going around making other leaders butthurt to that degree he would just be replaced in a completely natural and not at all US influenced coup. You also can't conquer other countries anymore

>> No.15084284

>>15084247
>Are you willing to die
Yes
>put everything you love
Yes
>for glory
That is not my will to power
>be hated for it?
If I am successful I wont
>>15084276
>You also can't conquer other countries anymore
Not necessarily

>> No.15084292

Being and Time to know how to be without time

>> No.15084296

>>15084087
The Lightning and the Sun

>> No.15084354

>>15084276
Never's a long time, anon

>> No.15084361
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15084361

Engage the boogaloo

>> No.15084372

Someone told me Napoleon was a terrifying presence. That is, despite being not physically intimidating he had a menacing charisma. He lived his entire life around death and bloodshed, either fighting in the grand spectacle of some war himself or commanding hundreds of thousands to their deaths. And during this all he was <i> respected </i>. His will to power defied normal summation or common sense. And he did what he could for the French nation, proving to be a visionary Enlightened Despot in his time. Don't get me wrong Napoleon was a menace and brought untold sorrow but at least he did it better than whatever jackass would have done it in his stead.

>> No.15084376

>>15084354
That's true and I will almost certainly be proven wrong someday. But not during my lifetime so I can at least die smugposting.

>> No.15084380

>>15084266
Nice rebuttal

>> No.15084422

>>15084380
Thanks

>> No.15084644

>>15084261
Lol

>> No.15084648

>>15084087
Herodotus

>> No.15084657
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>>15084236
Conquering is done in the shadows now

>> No.15084658

>>15084087
picture unrelated

>> No.15084856

>>15084087
Homer, of course..
David's story in the Samuels
Emerson, Representative Men
Carlyle, Heroes and Hero Worship

>> No.15084860

>>15084236
Queso Salami

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>>15084087

>> No.15084898

>>15084236
Did we ever have a next Alexander? A next Augustus, maybe? Or a next Charlemagne? Perhaps a next Catherine (the Russian one)?
There is no such thing. We'll never have a new Napoleon or a new Bismarck.

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>>15084087
>The door of Raguideau's cabinet did not shut close, and Bonaparte plainly heard him dissuading Madame de Beauharnais from her projected marriage. "You are going to take a very wrong step," said he, "and you will be sorry for it, Can you be so mad as to marry a young man who has nothing but his cloak and his sword?" Bonaparte, Josephine told me, had never mentioned this to her, and she never supposed that he had heard what fell from Raguideau. "Only think, Bourrienne," continued she, "what was my astonishment when, dressed in the Imperial robes on the Coronation day, he desired that Raguideau might be sent for, saying that he wished to see him immediately; and when Raguideau appeared; he said to him, 'Well, sir! have I nothing but my cloak and my sword now?'"

>> No.15086608

>>15084087
sorrows of young werther