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A leader is a dealer in hope.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
One bad general is worth two good ones.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Men are led by trifles.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The sovereignty of the people is inalienable.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
You write to me that it's impossible. The word is not French.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The life of a citizen is the property of his country.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Amy wondered if Bonaparte could declare war on Miss Gwen alone without breaking his peace with England
— Lauren Willig
Passions change, politics are immutable.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Great men are meteors, consuming themselves to light the world
— Napoleon Bonaparte
It's not the size of the army but the power within the army.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
It's the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The superior man is never in anyone's way.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Chess is too difficult to be a game and not serious enough to be a science or an art.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I am the signet which marks the page where the revolution has been stopped; but when I die it will turn the page and resume its course.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon would always be extremely fastidious when it came to other people's morals, although his own were frequently questionable.
— Leslie Carroll
France has more need of me than I have need of France.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness, the hideous ingratitude, of man.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
It's the people who are in the wrong who get angry.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
An army's effectiveness depends on its size, training, experience, and morale, and morale is worth more than any of the other factors combined.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The process of quitting smoking doesn't end with the last cigarette. It's not quitting itself, the real key is staying quit
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Man is entitled by birthright to a share of the earth's produce sufficient to fill the needs of his existence.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Oh well, no matter what happens, there's always death.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Bonaparte's wish is Peace, nay that he is afraid of war to the last degree.
— Charles James Fox
You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
There is not a power in Europe, no not even Bonaparte's that is so unlimited [as the British monarchy].
— Charles James Fox
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Impossible is the word found only in a fool's dictionary. Wise people create opportunities for themselves and make everything possible ...
— Napoleon Bonaparte
If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The leader's role is to define reality, then give hope
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Man will believe anything, as long as it's not in the bible.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I know he's a good general, but is he lucky?
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Love is the idler's occupation, the warrior's relaxation, and the sovereign's ruination.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
On victory, you deserve beer. On defeat, you need it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
There is a joy in danger.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
When I was happy I thought I knew men, but it was fated that I should know them in misfortune only.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Society is impossible without inequality, inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
If I wanted to do wrong, I could not.
— Louis Bonaparte
The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The amateurs discuss tactics: the professionals discuss logistics
— Napoleon Bonaparte
In war, as in love, we must come into contact before we triumph.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The fate of war is to be exalted in the morning, and low enough at night! There is but one step from triumph to ruin.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
War is the business of barbarians.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
You do not get peace by shouting: Peace. Peace is a meaningless word; what we need is a glorious peace.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
In the last analysis, one must be a military man in order to govern. It is only with boot and spurs that one can govern a horse.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Men of great ambition have sought happiness . . . and have found fame.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Give me enough medals and I'll win you any war
— Napoleon Bonaparte
I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers
— Napoleon Bonaparte
We walk faster when we walk alone.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Impossible is in the dictionary of fools
— Napoleon Bonaparte
History is a myth that men agree to believe.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Men grow old quickly on the battlefield.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Patriotism is a word which represents a noble idea.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Between a battle lost and a battle won, the distance is immense and there stand empires.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
It is the success which makes great men.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Liberty and equality are magical words.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
An urgent missive sent to Josephine Home in three days. Don't wash.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
The heart of a statesman should be in his head.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
