500 Quotes by Napoleon

In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them.

War must be made as intense and awful as possible in order to make it short, and thus to diminish its horrors.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Wine is inspiring and adds greatly to the joy of living.

From the sublime to the ridiculous there is but one step.

In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.