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What does Napoleon's motto "A living soldier is better than a dead emperor" mean?
This maxim means:

Honor (status, wealth, power) is precious, and the price of life is the highest.

Living, even the lowest-level soldiers have unlimited possibilities in their hands, and there are lovers, friends and parents around them, which are worthy of your love and struggle. If you are lucky enough, you will encounter troubled times, and you may be a future officer, general, Guizhou, marshal and even emperor under the wise commander of Cao Cao and Napoleon.

And a dead emperor, like all the dead people in the world, knows that everything is empty after death, and everything before death can't be taken away. What status, wealth, power, debauchery and wealth have all turned into nothingness, leaving the world with only a skeleton.

There is an old saying in China that should also express the same meaning.

That is "life is worse than death"