Quotes By Napoleon Bonaparte

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

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.

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

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.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

The French complain of everything, and always.

With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.

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.

If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.

Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.