17 thoughts on “The Hardest Thing in Life”

  1. And here I always thought that the hardest thing to do in life was to know how to do something well and manage to somehow keep your big mouth shut while watching someone else do it terribly wrong …

      • Actually it sounds like something Han might say.

        As you know quotes tend to gravitate towards famous people (well mostly to men actually, but in these PC days we say people) and many quotes attributed to Bony – or any else famous – were never said by them. In this case Napoleon may have said something at the battle of Austerlitz that has transmogrified into this quote but, if so, it was originally in French and the equivalent of “give the enemy another 20 minutes to really screw things up before we interrupt them”.

        As a military maxim “Never be too hasty to interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake” would be better advice.

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