500 Quotes by Napoleon

We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.

In Russia there are no roads – only areas.

Man will believe anything, as long as it’s not in the bible.

Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out in lighting up their age.

It is in times of difficulty that great nations like great men display the whole energy of their character and become an object of admiration to posterity.

Independence, like honor, is a rocky island, without a beach.

True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune.

It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.

What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do you imagine that I triumph in Italy in order to aggrandise the pack of lawyers who form the Directory, and men like Carnot and Barras? What an idea!