500 Quotes by Napoleon

Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me and accepted all my views, were those who did me the most injury.

The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.

The allies we gain by victory will turn against us upon the bare whisper of our defeat.

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.

Great men are never cruel without necessity.

It’s the unconquerable soul of man, and not the nature of the weapon he uses, that ensures victory.

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.