Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only. — 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
The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
What is the future? What is the past? What are we? What is the magic fluid that surrounds us and conceals the… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I know men, and I tell you, Jesus is more than a man. Comparison is impossible between Him and any other human… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A legislator must know how to take advantage of even the defects of those he wants to govern. The art consists in… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It is easy to know when a government wishes for peace by observing the character of the person sent to negotiate for… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and… — 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
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
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
