Quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Respect the burden.

I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne.

An army marches on its stomach.

Men are never attached to you by favours.

The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.

War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade.

Remember that a man, a true man, never hates. His rages and his bad moods never last beyond the present moment-like electric shocks.

A great Nation should have a fixed Government, so that the death of one man should not overturn it.

The friendship of a great man is a favor of the gods.

Men are led by trifles.

A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.

Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government.

A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.

When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.

There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment.

You don't govern men who don't have religion, you shoot them.

The tools belong to the man who can use them.

Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.

It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.

Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering.