Tag: Quote of the Day

I do not see in religion the mystery of the incarnation, but the mystery of the social order; religion attaches to heaven an idea of equality that stops the rich from being massacred by the poor.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Commerce unites men and makes them; therefore it is fatal to despotic power.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

Napoleon Bonaparte

What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do you imagine that I triumph in Italy in order to aggrandise the pack of lawyers who form the Directory, and men like Carnot and Barras? What an idea!

Napoleon Bonaparte

Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A great people may be killed, but they cannot be intimidated.

Napoleon Bonaparte

What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history? A fable agreed upon.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

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.

Napoleon Bonaparte