500 Quotes by Napoleon

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.

The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.

After me, the Revolution – or, rather the ideas which formed it – will resume their course. It will be like a book from which the marker is removed, and one starts to read again at the page where one left off.

Character is victory organized.

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

You can do anything with bayonets except sit on them.

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

If you know a country’s geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.

When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.