Napoleão Bonaparte

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

The word impossible is not in my dictionary.

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

We must laugh at man, to avoid crying for him.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.

A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.

Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

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

[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Chief of the Army.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

What a beautiful fix we are in now; peace has been declared.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

I tell you Wellington is a bad general; the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

The French complain of everything, and always.

Music is the Voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

Ability is nothing without opportunity.

Men of genius are meteors intended to burn to light their century.

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.

Truth alone wounds.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

Religion is what keeps the poor man from murdering the rich.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.

Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.

I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.

The moment of greatest peril is the moment of victory.

There are only two forces that unite men—fear and interest.