Napoleon Quotes

What is history but a fable agreed upon ?

Es gibt keine andere Unsterblichkeit als die Erinnerung, die man im Geiste der Menschen zurücklässt.

Men of learning in Milan have not enjoyed proper respect. They hid themselves in their laboratories and thought themselves lucky if . . . priests left them alone. All is changed today. Thought in Italy is free. Inquisition, intolerance, despots have vanished. I invite scholars to meet and propose what must be done to give science and the arts a new flowering.

All the scholastic scaffolding
falls, as a ruined edifice,
before one single word — faith.

I have destroyed the Austrian army by simply marching

Aristocracy is the spirit of the Old Testament, democracy of the New.

Champagne. In victory one deserves it, in defeat one needs it.

The inevitable fate of large groups is to perish because of lack of unity.

When your opponent is making a mistake, do nothing to interfere.

I count upon taking [the French people] by surprise. A bold deed upsets people’s equanimity, and they are dumbfounded by a great novelty.

concentration of strength, activity, and a firm resolve to perish gloriously.

Men are ruled by toys

Napoléon ubicumque felix.

Give me good mothers and I will give you a good nation.

My son should often read and meditate on history; it is the only real philosophy