500 Quotes by Napoleon

It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which he considers defective is at fault; he must put forth his reasons, insist on the plan being changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of h.

If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East.

One might as well try to charge through a wall.

Soldiers, forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.

All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.

I know men; and I tell you that Jesus Christ is not a man. Superficial minds see a resemblance between Christ and the founders of empires, and the gods of other religions. That resemblance does not exist. There is between Christianity and whatever other religions the distance of infinity...

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Mankind’s worst enemy is fear of work.

The strong are good, only the weak are wicked.