Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there has even been, and in him the problem of the noble ideal as such made flesh--one might well ponder what kind of problem it is; Napoleon this synthesis of the inhuman and the superhumanFriedrich Nietzsche
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Napoleon was a man who believed in the nobility of man, he believed that for one to achieve greatness, one must be willing to do all that is necessary. If you are willing, you can achieve everything. This quote shows what Napoleon's dream was, becoming all the great things he wanted to be, an ideal that is still alive today.
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