Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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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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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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When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.
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There is no power without justice.
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The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.
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Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.
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Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
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The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.
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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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Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.
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Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot.
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It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.
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Fools have a great advantage over the wise; they are always self-satisfied.
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Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose.
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Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.
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There are in Europe many good generals, but they see too many things at once. I see one thing, namely the enemy's main body. I try to crush it, confident that secondary matters will then settle themselves.
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There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
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When people cease to complain, they cease to think.
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Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.
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Of all the peoples of Europe, Spaniards disgust me the least.
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Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
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People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.
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Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.
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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!