Napoleon Quotes
It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.
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!
Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.
It strengthens the bonds between nations to have the same civil laws and the same monetary system.
Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation
To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind.
Since the discovery of printing, knowledge has been called to power, and power has been used to make knowledge a slave.
Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.
The world is filled with unfortunate souls who didn't hear opportunity knock at the door, because they were down at the convenience stor buying lottery tickets.
I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning.
Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.
No individual has sufficient experience, education, native ability and knowledge to ensure the accumulation of a great fortune, without the cooperation of other people.
I am conquered less by fortune than by the egotism and ingratitude of my companions in arms.
It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.
The first quality of a soldier is constancy in enduring fatigue and hardship. Courage is only the second. Poverty privation and want are the school of the good soldier.
It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.
A man does not have himself killed for a half-pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him
Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.
Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
There is always room for those who can be relied upon to delivery the goods when they say they will.
Most failures could have been converted into successes if someone had held on another minute or made more effort.
