Napoleon Quotes

From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

Charity and alms are recommended in every chapter of the Koran as being the most acceptable services, both to God and the Prophet.

Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.

Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.

The hand that gives is above the hand that takes. (La main qui donne est au-dessus de celle qui reçoit.)

I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers

Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart.

The future destiny of the child is always the work of his mother. Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

Czar Alexander is my baby daddy.

«ليست السلطة المطلقة في حاجة إلى الكذب، لأنها تعمل ولا تقول شيئًا»

Peace ought to be the result of a system well considered, founded on the true interests of the different countries, honorable to each, and ought not to be either a capitulation or the result of a threat.

What is a throne? — a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state — I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public — people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.

Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its own interests in danger. ... other powers only recognize this right of intervening in proportion as the country doing it has the power to do it.

If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East

What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the confidence of each in themselves; that is to say, bravery, patience, and all that is contained in the idea of moral means.