500 Quotes by Napoleon

The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it.

Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others.

A true man hates no one.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one’s self to destiny.

Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.

Even when I am gone, I shall remain in people’s minds the star of their rights, my name will be the war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes.

Nothing makes the future look so rosy as to contemplate it through a glass of Chambertin.