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Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.

Being in the Tuileries is not everything: what matters is to stay here.

Napoleon Bonaparte
What Matters, Matter

The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Powerful, History, Enemy

Men are lead by trifles.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Leadership, Men, Society

I shall be an Attila to Venice.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Venice, History

If you (to General Bertrand) do not perceive that Jesus Christ is God, very well; then I did wrong to make you a general.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Jesus, Christ, Wells

Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!

Napoleon Bonaparte
Military, Soldier, Century
Napoleon Bonaparte (2010). “The Corsican: The Virtual Diary of Napoleon Bonaparte”, p.63, Fireship Press

I generally had to give in.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Army, Giving
Statement on his relations with the Empress Josephine (19 May 1816), quoted in "The Story of Civilization" by Will Durant and Ariel Durant, (p. 234), 1935.

I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Politics, Crime, Committed

A fool is only troublesome, a pedant insupportable.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Stupidity, Fool, Pedants

For my part, it is not the mystery of the incarnation which I discover in religion, but the mystery of social order, which associates with heaven that idea of equality which prevents the rich from destroying the poor

Napoleon Bonaparte
Equality, Order, Ideas

Conquests will come and go but Delambre's work will endure.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Endure, Comes And Goes, Conquest

An army must have but one line of operations. This must be maintained with care and abandoned only for major reasons.

Napoleon Bonaparte
War, Army, Care

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Government, Firsts, Instruction

Everything is more or less organized matter. To think so is against religion, but I think so just the same.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Thinking, Atheism, Matter

Soldiers! Here is the battle you have so long desired! Henceforth victory depends on you; we have need of it.

Napoleon Bonaparte
War, Long, Soldier

Every French soldier carriers a marshal's baton in his knapsack.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Leadership, Soldier, Empowerment

My star was fading, I felt the reins slipping out of my grasp, and could do nothing to stop it.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Stars, Fading, Slipping

One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Ignorant, Routine, Genius
Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

Variety made the Revolution. Liberty was just a pretext.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Liberty, Revolution, Made

There are certain things in war of which the commander alone comprehends the importance. Nothing but his superior firmness and ability can subdue and surmount all difficulties.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Military, War, Firmness

In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything.

Napoleon Bonaparte
War, Half, Tactics
"Napoleon : In His Own Words" edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes, (Ch. VII), 1916.

In matters of government, justice means force as well as virtue.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Mean, Government, Justice

The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Law, Circumstances
Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

In Russia there are no roads - only areas.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Russia, Areas

Public esteem is the recompense of honest men.

Napoleon Bonaparte
Men, Opinion, Honest

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