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Quotes from Napoleon : In His Own Words — Napoleon

1769–1821 France

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Who saves his country violates no law.

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

In love the only safety is in flight.

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

Gentleness, good treatment, honor the victor and dishonor the vanquished, who should remain aloof and owe nothing to pity — In war, audacity is the finest calculation of genius.

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors.

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

To listen to the interests of all, marks an ordinary government; to foresee them, marks a great government.

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude.

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned.

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

Policy and morals concur in repressing pillage.

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance.

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

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.

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

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.

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you.

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

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.

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

To plan to reserve cavalry for the finish of the battle, is to have no conception of the power of combined infantry and cavalry charges, either for attack or for defense.

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

Peace ought to be the result of a system well considered, founded on the true interests of the different countries, honorable to each, and ought not to be either a capitulation or the result of a threat.

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

The religious zeal which animates priests, leads them to undertake labors and to brave perils which would be far beyond the powers of one in secular employment.

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

France will always be a great nation.

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

A prince should suspect everything.

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

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