500 Quotes by Napoleon

I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.

The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of all.

It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only.

Nature intended women to be our slaves. They are our property.

It is the success which makes great men.

The purely defensive is doomed to defeat.

It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.

In war the simplest manoeuvres are the best.

Conscription is the vitality of a nation, the purification of its morality, and the real foundations of all its habits.