500 Quotes by Napoleon

My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.

It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one.

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

The French complain of everything, and always.

A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories.

A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity.

A man made for public life and authority never takes account of personalities; he only takes account of things, of their weight and their conseqences.

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

Strong coffee, much strong coffee, is what awakens me. Coffee gives me warmth, waking, an unusual force and a pain that is not without very great pleasure.