500 Quotes by Napoleon

What is a throne? – a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state- I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public – people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France.

In war, the general alone can judge of certain arrangements. It depends on him alone to conquer difficulties by his own superior talents and resolution.

In war as in love, to bring matters to a close, you must get close together.

Europe is a molehill. All great empires and revolutions have been on the Orient; six hundred millions live there.

What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?

Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.

We are born, we live, we die among supernatural.

Artillery is more essential to cavalry than to infantry, because cavalry has no fire for its defence, but depends on the sabre.

Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.