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
Envy is a declaration of inferiority.
The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.
Medicines are only fit for old people.
In tragedy great men are more truly great than in history. We see them only in the crises which unfold them.
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.
It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.
Good and decent people must be protected and persuaded by gentle means, but the rabble must be led by terror.
As a rule it is circumstances that make men.
It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying.
Give me a man with a good allowance of nose, . . . when I want any good head-work done I choose a man--provided his education has been suitable--with a long nose.
He who is unmoved by tears has no heart.
The human race is governed by its imagination.
It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.
The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.