Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
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Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.
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Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten.
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France has more need of me than I have need of France.
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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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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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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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Ability has nothing to do with opportunity.
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Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
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Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.
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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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What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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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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A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
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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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It's not the size of the army but the power within the army.
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Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool.
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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
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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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War is 90% information.
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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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Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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Every hour of lost time is a chance of future misfortune.
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Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.