“The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Women are nothing but machines for producing children.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Victory belongs to the most persevering.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“The army is the true nobility of our country.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Ability is nothing without opportunity.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one’s designs to one’s means.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“The French complain of everything, and always.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“History is a set of lies agreed upon.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“A true man hates no one.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Imagination rules the world.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“In politics… never retreat, never retract… never admit a mistake.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“I have only one counsel for you – be master.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“What is history but a fable agreed upon?”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“All religions have been made by men.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“An army marches on its stomach.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“War is the business of barbarians.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Medicines are only fit for old people.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“I made all my generals out of mud.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“A Constitution should be short and obscure.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“The human race is governed by its imagination.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“England is a nation of shopkeepers.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Respect the burden.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“Let the path be open to talent.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“France has more need of me than I have need of France.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
“A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.”
― Napoleon Bonaparte
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