Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
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I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and the founders of empires, and the gods of other religions. That resemblance does not exist. There is between Christianity and whatever other religions the distance of infinity.
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The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
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The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.
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Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.
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Medicines are only fit for old people.
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International incidents must not be allowed to shape foreign policy, foreign policy must shape the incidents.
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There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
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This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.
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France has more need of me than I have need of France.
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I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest.
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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month.
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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
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Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.
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Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
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If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.
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Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.
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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
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I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.