"From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us."
— Napoleon

January 1, 1970

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Speech to his troops in Egypt (21 July 1798) Variant translation: "Soldiers, from the summit of yonder pyramids forty centuries look down upon you...". Published in the autobiography of French general Eugène de Beauharnais.