Quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte

Revolutions are ideal times for soldiers with a lot of wit — and the courage to act.

une science indigeste?

The poor man and the beggar are two quite different classes: one commands respect, the other arouses anger.

Imagination rules the world.

the first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue

One must never ask of fortune more than she can grant

We are waging war as generous enemies, and we wish only to crush the tyrants who enslave you.

You have won battles without cannon, crossed rivers without bridges, made forced marches without shoes, camped without brandy and often without bread. Soldiers of liberty, only republican phalanxes [infantry troops] could have endured what you have endured.

The two armies which but recently attacked you with audacity are fleeing before you in terror; the wicked men who laughed at your misery and rejoiced at the thought of the triumphs of your enemies are confounded and trembling.

Las batallas contra las mujeres son las únicas que se ganan huyendo

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El verdadero carácter siempre aparece en las grandes circunstancias" (Napoleón Bonaparte)

Since sixt week j learn the Englich and j do not any progress. Six week do fourty and two day. If might have learn fivity word four day I could konow it two thusands and two hundred.

I see only the objective, the obstacles must give way.

On peut s'arrêter quand on monte, jamais quand on descend.

Montre-moi une famille de lecteurs, et je te montrerai les gens qui bougent le monde.

It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or do in a circumstance unexpected by other people: it is reflection, it is meditation.

Le hasard est le seul roi légitime dans l'univers.

The men who have changed the world never succeeded by winning over the powerful, but always by stirring the masses. The first method is a resort to intrigue and only brings limited result. The latter is the course of genius and changes the face of the world.

If I am often seen at the theatre, people will cease to notice me.

I have closed the gaping abyss of anarchy, and I have unscrambled chaos, I have cleansed the Revolution, ennobled the common people, and restored the authority of kings. I have stirred all men to competition, I have rewarded merit wherever I found it, I have pushed back the boundaries of greatness.

The moral is to the physical as three is to one

Do you know, Fontanes, what astonishes me most in this world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the spirit

L'ambition de dominer sur les esprits est la plus forte de toutes les passions.

At twenty-two many things are allowed which are no longer permitted past thirty