Quotes from Napoleon Bonaparte


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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.


Imagination rules the world.


Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.


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.


Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.


Let the path be open to talent.


The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.


If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.


An army marches on its stomach.


Victory belongs to the most persevering.


A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.


You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.


A leader is a dealer in hope.


A Constitution should be short and obscure.


In politics stupidity is not a handicap.


Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.


One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.


Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.


The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.


Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.