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By Napoleon Bonaparte
The first qualification of a soldier is fortitude under fatigue and privation. Courage is only the second; hardship, poverty and want, are the best school for a soldier.
- Source
- The Officer's Manual: Military Maxims of Napoleon (translated from the French by Colonel D'Aguilar), 1831 · Maxim LVIII, pp. 47-48
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- Richard Milliken and Son, Dublin (Internet Archive scan of the 1831 edition)
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Maxim LVIII in The Officer's Manual: Military Maxims of Napoleon, translated from the French by Colonel D'Aguilar (Dublin: Richard Milliken and Son, 1831). The collection gathers maxims drawn from Napoleon's military writings, so this is a translator's English, not Napoleon's own French.