Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.
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England would be better off without Canada; it keeps her in a prepared state for war at a great expense and constant irritation.
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They wanted me to be a Washington.
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Clearly, the pleasures wines afford are transitory - but so are those of the ballet, or of a musical performance. Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.
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A mathematician of the first rank, Laplace quickly revealed himself as only a mediocre administrator; from his first work we saw that we had been deceived. Laplace saw no question from its true point of view; he sought subtleties everywhere; had only doubtful ideas, and finally carried the spirit of the infinitely small into administration.
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Generals are not to be too scrupulous.
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Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.
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I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.
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A man like me troubles himself little about a million men.
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Vengeance is without foresight.
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Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.
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Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.
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Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.
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Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings.
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The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with the supreme magistracy.
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In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior talents and resolution.
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Wisdom and policy dictate that we must do as destiny demands and keep peace with the irresistible march of events.
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Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits
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Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.
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Equality should be the chief basis of the education of youth.
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Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world.
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Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks for that which a philosopher may often seek in vain at the hands of his friends, or a father of his children, or a bride of her spouse, or a man of his brother. He asks for the human heart; He will have it entirely to Himself. He demands it unconditionally; and forthwith His demand is granted. Wonderful!
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When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!
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Society cannot exist without inequality of fortunes and the inequality of fortunes could not subsist without religion. Whenever a half-starved person is near another who is glutted, it is impossible to reconcile the difference if there is not an authority who tells him to.