Napoleon Quotes

All celebrated people lose dignity
upon a closer view

My maxim was, la carrière est ouverte aux talents, without distinction of birth or fortune.

Able was I ere I saw Elba

It requires more courage to suffer than to die

In Love, Victory goes to the man who runs away

In war, theory is all right so far as general principles are concerned; but in reducing general principles to practice there will always be danger. Theory and practice are the axis about which the sphere of accomplishment revolves.

in this life we are either kings or pawns emperors and fools

In war, the moral is to the physical as ten to one.

My conscience is the tribunal before which I call my conduct.

There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.

I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist.

Only give them history books. Men should read nothing else.

Society is impossible without inequality, inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion.

There are two levers for moving man — interest and fear.

A man does not have himself killed for a half pence a day or for a petty distinction. You must speak to the soul in order to electrify him.