Napoleon Bonaparte quotes

“Respect the burden. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“The French complain of everything, and always. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

“There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. ”

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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