976 Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

You become strong by defying defeat and by turning loss into gain and failure to success.

Napoleon Paintings & Chalcography from the Palace of Versailles (1800-1804, From Bonaparte to Napoleon)

The art of being sometimes audacious and sometimes very prudent is the secret of success.

A great reputation is a great noise, the more there is of it, and the further does it swell. Land, monuments, Nations, all fall, but the noise remains, and will reach to other generations.

The superior man is never in anyone's way.

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

Rascality has limits; stupidity has not.

When you fight, fight as if everything depended on you. When you pray, pray as if everything depended on God.