Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoléon Bonapartewas a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led several successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars. As Napoleon I, he was Emperor of the French from 1804 until 1814, and again in 1815. Napoleon dominated European and global affairs for more than a decade while leading France against a series of coalitions in the Napoleonic Wars. He won most of these wars and the vast majority of his battles, building a...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionRoyalty
Date of Birth15 August 1769
CityAjaccio, France
CountryFrance
Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
Someone says, "Boys will be boys"; he forgot to add, "Boys will be men
Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit.
Know how to listen and be sure that silence often produces the same effects as science.
Napoleon Paintings & Chalcography from the Palace of Versailles (1800-1804, From Bonaparte to Napoleon)
An urgent missive sent to Josephine""Home in three days. Don't wash.
I must see her and press her to my heart. I love her to the point of madness, and I cannot continue to be separated from her. If she no longer loved me, I would have nothing left to do on earth.
Great men are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted
If I had believed in a God of rewards and punishments, I might have lost courage in battle
Genuine victories, the sole conquests yielding no remorse, are those gained over ignorance
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
This soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.
The purpose of religion is to keep the poor from killing the rich.
The Bible is not merely a book-it is a living power. . . . Nowhere as in the Bible can be found such a series of beautiful ideas and admirable maxims which pose before us like the battalions of a celestial army. . . . The soul can never go astray while it has this book for its guide.