Napoleon Bonaparte
sitemanagerGlory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Napoleon Bonaparte
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The whole art of war consists in a well-reasoned and extremely circumspect defensive, followed by rapid and audacious attack.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Ability is nothing without opportunity.
Napoleon Bonaparte
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or…
Napoleon Bonaparte
You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Napoleon Bonaparte
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this…
Napoleon Bonaparte
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the soverign's ruination.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Victory belongs to the most persevering.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.