| A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| A Constitution should be short and obscure. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| A leader is a dealer in hope. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| A picture is worth a thousand words. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| A true man hates no one. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Ability is nothing without opportunity. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| All religions have been made by men. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| An army marches on its stomach. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| England is a nation of shopkeepers. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| France has more need of me than I have need of France. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| History is a set of lies agreed upon. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| 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. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| I am the successor, not of Louis XVI, but of Charlemagne. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| I have only one counsel for you - be master. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| 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. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| I made all my generals out of mud. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Imagination rules the world. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| In politics stupidity is not a handicap. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| It requires more courage to suffer than to die. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Let the path be open to talent. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Medicines are only fit for old people. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Respect the burden. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| The army is the true nobility of our country. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| The best cure for the body is a quiet mind. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| The French complain of everything, and always. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| The human race is governed by its imagination. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| The word impossible is not in my dictionary. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| 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. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Throw off your worries when you throw off your clothes at night. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Victory belongs to the most persevering. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| War is the business of barbarians. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| Women are nothing but machines for producing children. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| A court is an assembly of noble and distinguished beggars. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand |
| Black as the devil, hot as hell, pure as an angel, sweet as love. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand |
| I am more afraid of an army of 100 sheep led by a lion than an army of 100 lions led by a sheep. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand |
| If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand |
| Love of glory can only create a great hero; contempt of glory creates a great man. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand |
| Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand |
| Mistrust first impulses; they are nearly always good. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand |
| Ones reputation is like a shadow, it is gigantic when it precedes you, and a pigmy in proportion when it follows. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand |
| She is such a good friend that she would throw all her acquaintances into the water for the pleasure of fishing them out again. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand |
| Show me another pleasure like dinner which comes every day and lasts an hour. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand |
| Since the masses are always eager to believe something, for their benefit nothing is so easy to arrange as facts. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand |
| Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand |
| The art of statesmanship is to foresee the inevitable and to expedite its occurrence. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand |
| The bold defiance of a woman is the certain sign of her shame, - when she has once ceased to blush, it is because she has too much to blush for. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand |
| To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand |
| Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand |
| War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand |
| What clever man has ever needed to commit a crime? Crime is the last resort of political half-wits. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand |
| Without freedom of the press, there can be no representative government. | Charles Maurice de Talleyrand |
| "Soldiers! Do your duty! Straight to the heart but avoid the face. Fire! | Marshal Joachim Murat |
