976 Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or on my right, or my left?

The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.

Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.

It would be a joke if the conduct of the victor had to be justified to the vanquished.

If I had believed in a God of rewards and punishments, I might have lost courage in battle

What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.

Passions change, politics are immutable.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Wherever flowers cannot be reared, there man cannot live.