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
Napoleon Bonaparte quotes about
From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.
Battles are lost or won in 15 minites
I know when it is necessary, how to leave the skin of lion to take one of fox.
If I had believed in a God of rewards and punishments, I might have lost courage in battle
Put a rouge in the limelight and he will act like an honest man
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.
Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.
All systems of morality are fine. The Gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few commonplace sentences put in bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Women are nothing but machines for producing children.
I have made noise enough in the world already, perhaps too much, and am now getting old, and want retirement.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Cossacks are the best light troops among all that exist. If I had them in my army, I would go through all the world with them.