To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Sometimes a great example is necessary to all the public functionaries of the state. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I have fought sixty battles, and I have learnt nothing which I did not know at the beginning. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In war, as in politics, no evil - even if it is permissible under the rules - is excusable unless it is… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image