Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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Friendship is but a name. I love no one.
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We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.
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Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
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The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.
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Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.
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We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good.
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One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
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A society without religion is like a vessel without compass.
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Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of men;.... Consequently, it may be repressed with impunity. Equality, on the other hand, pleases the masses.
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It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds.
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An army marches on its stomach.
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Jesus Christ was more than man.
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Moses has revealed the existence of God to his nation. Jesus Christ to the Roman world, Muhammad to the old continent.
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Charges of cavalry are equally useful at the beginning, the middle and the end of a battle. They should be made always, if possible, on the flanks of the infantry, especially when the latter is engaged in front.
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If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
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Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.
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If you (to General Bertrand) do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well; then I did wrong to make you a general.
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In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.
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My mind is a chest of drawers. When I wish to deal with a subject, I shut all the drawers but the one in which the subject is to be found. When I am wearied, I shut all the drawers and go to sleep.
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Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally.
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The future destiny of a child is always the work of the mother.
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My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover.
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A man is known by his conduct to his wife, to his family, and to those under him.
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Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.