Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
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The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.
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Alexander, Charlemagne and myself all tried to found an empire on force and we failed. Jesus Christ is building an empire on love, and today there are millions of people who would gladly die for His sake.
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Men are ruled by toys.
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Jesus Christ was more than man.
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In these days the invention of printing, and the diffusion of knowledge, render historical calumnies a little less dangerous: truth will always prevail in the long run, but how slow its progress!
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Sometimes a single battle decides everything and sometimes, too, the slightest circumstance decides the issue of a battle. There is a moment in every battle at which the least manoeuvre is decisive and gives superiority, as one drop of water causes overflow.
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If you want to get on in this world make many promises, but don't keep them.
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The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.
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It is the success which makes great men.
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One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them.
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You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.
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It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for it.
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Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.
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When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day.
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The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of all.
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There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.
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All great events hang by a single thread. The clever man takes advantage of everything, neglects nothing that may give him some added opportunity; the less clever man, by neglecting one thing, sometimes misses everything.
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Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.
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There is no man more pusillanimous than I when I am planning a campaign. I purposely exaggerate all the dangers and all the calamities that the circumstances make possible. I am in a thoroughly painful state of agitation. This does not keep me from looking quite serene in front of my entourage; I am like an unmarried girl laboring with child. Once I have made up my mind, everything is forgotten except what leads to success.
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Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.
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Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.
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You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.
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I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it.