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
There is only one thing in this world, and that is to keep acquiring money and more money, power and more power. All the rest is meaningless.
The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good.
Success is the most convincing talker in the world.
If you want to get on in this world make many promises, but don't keep them.
The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not correspond to the difficulties which all existence contains. Let it be rejected, and the whole world is an enigma; let it be accepted, and we possess a wonderful explanation of the history of man.
Imagination governs the world.
To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.
God has decreed that there be sick and poor in this world, but in the next it will be the other way around.
Give me enough ribbons to place on the tunics of my soldiers and I can conquer the world.
You cannot treat with all the world at once.
Do you know what astonished me the most in this world? The inability of force to create anything.
All becomes easy when we follow the current of opinion; it is the ruler of the world.
The first method is that of a schemer and leads only to mediocre results; the other method is the path of genius and changes the face of the world.
The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.