May Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A great people may be killed, but they cannot be intimidated.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The heart may be broken, and the soul remain unshaken.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I may lose a battle but I will never lose a minute.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

You may ask me for anything you like except time.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

I may be accused or rashness, but not sluggishness.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived…

— Napoleon Bonaparte