A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A Constitution should be short and obscure.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A picture is worth a thousand words.
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
A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A true man hates no one.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
Napoleon Bonaparte
An army marches on its stomach.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
Napoleon Bonaparte
England is a nation of shopkeepers.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Every soldier carries a marshall's baton in his pack.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Few things are brought to a sucessful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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 principals which direct them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
Napoleon Bonaparte
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Napoleon Bonaparte
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
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
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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
I made all my generals out of mud.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius where reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
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
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Napoleon Bonaparte
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Let the path be open to talent.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Medicines are only fit for old people.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest
Napoleon Bonaparte
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
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
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Respect the burden.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The French complain of everything, and always.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
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
The human race is governed by its imagination.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
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
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
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
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
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Vanity made the [French] Revolution; liberty was only a pretext.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Napoleon Bonaparte
When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.
Napoleon Bonaparte
With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
Napoleon Bonaparte
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
Napoleon Bonaparte
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Type:
Leader
Date of Birth:
1769-08-15
Year of Death:
1821
Nationality:
French |
