500 Quotes by Napoleon

The reason I beat the Austrians is, they did not known the value of five minutes.

Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!

Nothing is more arrogant than the weakness which feels itself supported by power.

Why and how are words so important that they cannot be too often used.

Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time.

A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them.

People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.

I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.