Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.
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I have so often been mistaken that I no longer blush for it.
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I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.
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The best generals are those who have served in the artillery.
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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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There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.
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Man, not men, is the most important consideration.
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The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.
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War is not at all such a difficult art as people think. . . . In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.
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There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
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The mind of a general ought to resemble and be as clear as the field-glass of a telescope.
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Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its own interests in danger. ... other powers only recognize this right of intervening in proportion as the country doing it has the power to do it.
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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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The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.
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Peoples of Egypt , you will be told that I have come to destroy your religion. Do not believe it! Reply that I have come to restore your rights!
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It is the success which makes great men.
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The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not correspond to the difficulties which all existence contains. Let it be rejected, and the whole world is an enigma; let it be accepted, and we possess a wonderful explanation of the history of man.
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The only victory over love is flight.
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A faithful friend is the true image of the Deity.
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Nothing is more destructive than the charge of artillery on a crowd.
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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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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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There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.
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Agriculture is the soul and chief support of empires; industry produces riches and the happiness of the people; exportation represents the superabundance, and good use of both.