Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes (197 Quotes)


    Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

    International incidents should not govern foreign policy, but foreign policy, incidents

    You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

    What, sir, would you make a ship sail against the wind and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck I pray you excuse me. I have no time to listen to such nonsense.

    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.


    Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.

    Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.

    I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.




    When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.


    Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.


    In war, three quarters turns on personal character and relations the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter.

    Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them





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

    When I want any, good head work done I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.



    Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement

    If I had believed in a God of rewards and punishments, I might have lost courage in battle

    Arabia was idolatrous when, six centuries after Jesus, Muhammad introduced the worship of the God of Abraham, of Ishmael, of Moses, and Jesus - Muhammad declared that there was none but one God who had no father, no son and that the trinity imported


    Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

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

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


    The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.


    I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness


    Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

    War is not at all such a difficult art as people think.... In reality it would seem that he is vanquished who is afraid of his adversary and the the whole secret lies in that.



    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.

    Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.


    Do you know what amazes me more than anything else The impotence of force to organize anything.




    War - the trade of barbarians, and the art of bringing the greatest physical force to bear on a single point.



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