The fate of a Nation may sometimes depend upon the position of a fortress. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Liberty is a need felt by a small class of people whom nature has endowed with nobler minds than the mass of… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
For today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Great men are meteors designed to burn so that earth may be lighted. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A true master of politics is able to calculate, down to the smallest fraction, the advantages to which he may put his… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share
When a government is dependent upon bankers for money, they and not the leaders of the government control the situation — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share
All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share
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
Republican despotism is more fertile in acts of tyranny, because everyone has a hand in it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share
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
There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share
A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share
