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What did he mean by this? 2017-03-05 01:34:29 Post No. 2456848
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>Solitary amidst men I return to my room to think alone and to abandon myself to my melancholy. Where does it lead me to-day? Towards death. In the springtime of life, I may hope to live long. I have been absent from my country six or seven years. What pleasure shall I have in four mouths in seeing once more my companions and my parents? Can I not conclude, from the sweet sensations awakened by the remembrance of my childhood, that my happiness will be complete? What mad fellow urges me on to self-destruction? But what can be done in this world? Since I have to, is it not better to kill myself? If I was over sixty years of age I would respect the prejudices of my fellow-creatures, and would wait patiently for nature to accomplish its work; but since I commence to experience unhappiness, and since nothing gives me pleasure, why should I endure days in which I succeed in nothing? How far men are from nature! How cowardly, vile, and cringing they are! What is the spectacle I shall witness in my country? Fellow-countrymen loaded with chains, all trembling, kissing the hand that oppresses them. They are no longer brave Corsicans animated by heroic virtues, and the enemies of tyrants, luxury, and base courtesans. Proud and full of the noble consciousness of his own personal importance, a Corsican was formerly happy. If he had occupied his day in transacting public business, the night was spent in the tender arms of a dearly-loved wife; his reason and his enthusiasm obliterated all the troubles of the day, tenderness and nature rendered the night comparable to that of gods. But with liberty those happy days have vanished like a dream. Frenchmen! Not content with having despoiled us of all we loved, you have corrupted our manners.
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>The present condition of my country, and my powerlessness to change it, are additional reasons for me to leave a land where I am obliged by duty to praise men whom I ought by virtue to hate. When I arrive in my country how am I to act, and what am I to do? When the mother country has ceased to exist a good citizen should die. If I had to destroy but one man in order to deliver my fellow-countrymen I would start at once. I would plunge the avenging dagger up to the hilt in the breast of the tyrant. My life is a burden, because I taste no pleasure, and because, for me, everything is wearisome. My life is a burden, because I live, and must probably always live, with men whose thoughts and manners are as different from mine as the silver moonlight is different from the light of the sun. I cannot, then, follow the only manner of living that could make life bearable for me, whence it follows that I feel aversion for everything.
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- Napoleon, 17 years of age
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>>2456949
Was he an opportunist?
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>>2457027
As is the wont of great men.
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>>2457037
What?
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I wonder if modern day Corsican teenagers have the same edgy phase
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Reminder that Napoleon wasn't ethnically Corsican. He was descended from nobility of Tuscan origin. Ethnic Corsicans are some kind of pseudo-Sardinians. Very different.
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>>2457088
Well he was culturally, why does his ethnicity matter ?
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>>2457097
GO TO /POL/, MISTER!
YOURE GROUNDED FROM THIS BOARD UNTIL YOU CAN COMPREHEND RACE!
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>>2457097
Because Tuscans are the master race. A simple Corsican peasant would never achieve such greatness.
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>>2457097
>He believes in civciness and cultural assimilation over plain arbitrary ethnics
KEK!!!!
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>>2457088
He had one far off Tuscan ancestor that arrived in Corsica three centuries before his birth
Given that this guy married a Corsican noble and that the same goes for all his descendents, Napoleon was probably like 10% Tuscan and 90% Corsican
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>>2457135
>Corsican nobles
Don't exist. Their nobility was all Genoese. At best Napoleon was a Genoese/Tuscan mix since nobility doesn't mix with random plebs.
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