976 Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

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.

In war, the moral is to the physical as ten to one.

Quel roman pourtant que ma vie!

I am for the whites because I am white; I have no other reason, and that one is good.

Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever

„Es gibt kein gutmütigeres, aber auch kein leichtgläubigeres Volk als das deutsche. Keine Lüge kann grob genug ersonnen werden, die Deutschen glauben sie. Um eine Parole, die man ihnen gab, verfolgen sie ihre Landsleute mit größerer Erbitterung als ihre wirklichen Feinde.

To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.