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
Age, habits of business and experience have modified many characters.
Vengeance has no foresight.
Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.
The confidence with which a Sovereign is invested, is solid only when it is sanctioned by the suffrages of the people, who clothed him with the supreme magistracy.
Passionate people invariably deny their anger, and cowards often boast their ignorance of fear.
In war, the moral is to the physical as three is to one.
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
The Jesuits are a MILITARY organization, not a religious order. Their chief is a general of an army, not the mere father abbot of a monastery. And the aim of this organization is power - power in its most despotic exercise - absolute power, universal power, power to control the world by the volition of a single man. Jesuitism is the most absolute of despotisms - and at the same time the greatest and most enormous of abuses.
Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.
It is the success which makes great men.
A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command.
All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.
Soldiers win battles and generals get the medals.
The Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered.