976 Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection.

In a great nation, the majority are incapable of judging wisely of things.

The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno.

My business is to succeed, and I’m good at it. I create my Iliad by my actions, create it day by day.

One might as well try to charge through a wall.

I must see her and press her to my heart. I love her to the point of madness, and I cannot continue to be separated from her. If she no longer loved me, I would have nothing left to do on earth.

I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.

He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.