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
In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.
The greatest ornament of an illustrious life is modesty and humility, which go a great way in the character even of the most exalted princes.
The only way to lead people is to show them a future: a leader is a dealer in hope.
If you wage war, do it energetically and with severity. This is the only way to make it shorter and consequently less inhuman.
The best way to make every one poor is to insist on equality of wealth.
God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.
The superior man is never in anyone's way.
We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good.
Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.
I see only my objective - the obstacles must give way.
Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.
Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make ourselves its slave
Public morals are natural complements of all laws: they are by themselves an entire code.
Put a rouge in the limelight and he will act like an honest man