Words matter. These are the best Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
Let the path be open to talent.
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
Men take only their needs into consideration – never their abilities.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
Medicines are only fit for old people.
The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
War is the business of barbarians.
All religions have been made by men.
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.
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.
The army is the true nobility of our country.
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
France has more need of me than I have need of France.
There are only two forces that unite men – fear and interest.
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
The best way to keep one’s word is not to give it.
