Quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

The worse the man, the better the soldier.

We are either kings or pawns of men

I like honest men of all colors.

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

I know men, and I tell you, Jesus is more than a man. Comparison is impossible between Him and any other human being who ever lived, because He was the Son of God.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas.

The superior man is never in anyone's way.

A man is known by his conduct to his wife, to his family, and to those under him.

The art of choosing men is not nearly so difficult as the art of enabling those chosen to attain their full worth.

Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

Has a man the right to kill himself? Yes, if his death harms no one and if life is an evil to him. When is life an evil? When it offers a man nothing but suffering and pain.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Man will believe anything, as long as it's not in the bible.

Love is the occupation of the idle man, the amusement of a busy one, and the shipwreck of a sovereign.

The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.

I made all my generals out of mud.

Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.

Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception.

It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

To live, is to suffer; and the honest man is always fighting to be master of his own mind.

Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.

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