Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes, Loss Quotes, Rights Quotes

Timid and cowardly soldiers cause the loss of a nation's independence; but pusillanimous magistrates destroy the empire of the laws, the rights of the throne, and even social order itself.

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If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

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

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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.

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Men soon get tired of shedding their blood for the advantage of a few individuals, who think they amply reward the soldiers perils with the treasures they amass.

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The public spirit is in the hands of the man who knows how to make use of it.

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Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

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The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.

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True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

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Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

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I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

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Men, in general, are but great children.

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Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night.

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Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it.

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Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

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Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me.

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Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.

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Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.

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There is no such thing as an accident, only a failure to recognise the hand of fate

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