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Famous Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
“Oh Man, Man. How despicable in slavery, how great when fired with the love of freedom!”
“It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.”
“Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.”
“The best medicine against the grapes of wrath is a whiff of grapeshot”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“A prince should suspect everything.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“France will always be a great nation.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.”
“Whatever you ardently and passionately desire, that you obtain.”
“If you know a country's geography, you can understand and predict its foreign policy.”
“My success and everything good that I have done, I owe to my mother.”
“Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.”
“Clever policy consists in making nations believe they are free.”
“The Concordat is not the victory of any one party but the consolidation of all.”
“My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.”
“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.”
“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”
“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.”
“A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.”
Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”