Napoleon Quotes

French military leader, French Emperor 1804–1814 and again in 1815 (1769–1821)

Napoléon Bonaparte (15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821) was a French military general who rose dramatically up the ranks of the French Army during the French Revolution, becoming the ruler of France as First Consul of the French Republic (11 November 1799 - 18 May 1804), and then Emperor of the French and King of Italy under the name Napoleon I (18 May 1804 - 6 April 1814, and again briefly from 20 March - 22 June 1815). He died in exile on the island of Saint Helena.

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Native Name: Napulione Buonaparte

Alternative Names: Napoléon Bonaparte • Napoleone di Buonaparte • Empereur des Français Napoléon I • Napoleon Buonaparte • Napoleone Bonaparte • Napoleone Buonaparte • Napoleon I • the Corsican Napolean • The Little Corporal • Napulione di Buonaparte • Napoleon I of France • Napoleone I • Little Corporal • Emperador dels Francesos Napoleó I • Napoleon Bonaparte

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It is astonishing what power words have over men.

Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

I have gained the battle of Lutzen like the general-in-chief of the Army of Italy and of the Army of Egypt!

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

The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in proportion as the mind that produces it is universal.

Jesus Christ was the greatest republican.

Under a good administration, the Nile gains on the desert. Under a bad one, the desert gains on the Nile.

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

The true conquests, the only ones that cause no regret, are those made over ignorance.

Until you spread your wings, you'll have no idea how far you can fly.

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

siam forti quando siamo risoluti e pronti a morire

Conscience is the most sacred thing among men. Every man has within him a still small voice, which tells him that nothing on earth can oblige him to believe that which he does not believe. The worst of all tyrannies is that which obliges eighteen-twentieths of a nation to embrace a religion contrary to their beliefs, under penalty of being denied their rights as citizens and of owning property, which, in effect, is the same thing as being without a country.