Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 – 1821)
French military general who rose to prominence in the French Revolution, becoming the ruler of France as First Consul of the French Republic (11 November 1799 - 18 May 1804), and then Emperor of the French and King of Italy under the name Napoleon I (18 May 1804 - 6 April 1814, and again briefly from 20 March - 22 June 1815).
It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found.
Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation.
What are we? What is the future? What is the past? What magic fluid envelops us and hides from us the things it is most important for us to know? We are born, we live, and we die in the midst of the marvelous.
Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.
There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging.
Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated.
The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable.
All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst the less able man sometimes loses everything by neglecting a single one of those chances.
He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.
A prince should suspect everything.
There is nothing so imperious as feebleness which feels itself supported by force.
Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species.
Le mot impossible n'est pas français.
Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy.
The life of a citizen is the property of his country.
As a rule it is circumstances that make men.
The art of war consists in being always able, even with an inferior army, to have stronger forces than the enemy at the point of attack or the point which is attacked.
We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.
Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.
There is a joy in danger.