500 Quotes by Napoleon

My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

The only victory over love is flight.

The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.

If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

I would believe any religion that could prove it had existed since the beginning of the world. But when I see Socrates, Plato, Moses, and Mohammed I do not think there is such a one. All religions owe their origin to man.

The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.

To extraordinary circumstance we must apply extraordinary remedies.

The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.