Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it.

If it had not been for the English I should have been emperor of the East, but wherever there is water to float a ship we are sure to find them in our way.

It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one.

If you start to take Vienna take Vienna.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.

With audacity one can undertake anything.

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

Nothing is more difficult and therefore more precious than to be able to decide.

All the scholastic scaffolding falls as a ruined edifice before a single word: faith.

Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.

All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.

Fashion condemns us to many follies the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day?

10 persons who speak make more noise than 10 000 who are silent.

There are only two forces that unite men-fear and interest.

This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten and goes on fighting.

Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at and who steals what is most precious to men.

Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.

To do all that one is able to do is to be a man to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures but in the use made of them.

If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna.

Men take only their needs into consideration never their abilities.

Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment.

Respect the burden.

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.