A large collection of quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.
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Soldiers consider that from the summit of these pyramids, forty centuries look down upon you.
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I am a soldier and accustomed to risking my life every day. I am full of the fire of youth; I cannot act with the restraint of an accomplished diplomat.
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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.
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Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
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We are members of a powerful monarchy, but today we feel only the vices of its constitution.
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When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.
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I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.
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My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.
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A revolution is an opinion that has acquired some bayonets.
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I treat policies like war. I hoodwink one flank so as to trounce the other. In my family we kneel only to God.
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Unavailable wars are always just.
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Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.
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Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.
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The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of all.
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If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.
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In the eyes of those who found empires, men are not men but tools.
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For Poland, God created a fifth element: Battlemud.
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The empire is an old serving woman who is used to being raped by everyone.
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My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.
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After making a mistake or suffering a misfortune, the man of genius always gets back on his feet.
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I felt that fortune was abandoning me I no longer had the feeling that I was sure to succeed... When a man does not act boldly, he never does anything at just the right moment; and a man does not act boldly unless he is convinced that luck is on his side. Napolean Bonaparte
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The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.
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