Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A man is known by his conduct to his wife, to his family, and to those under him. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Once you have made up your mind, stick to it; there is no longer any 'if' or 'but'. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Sometimes a great example is necessary to all the public functionaries of the state. — 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
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
