Napoléon Bonaparte Quotes

Men of great ambition have sought happiness . . . and have found fame.

Imagination governs the world.

Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

The heart of a statesman should be in his head.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

As to moral courage I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion and which in spite of the most unforeseen events leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.

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 vanity.

10 persons who speak make more noise than 10 000 who are silent.

It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.

In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them.

This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten and goes on fighting.

A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets.

Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at and who steals what is most precious to men.