Napoleon Bonaparte
Imagination rules the world.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.
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
In politics stupidity is not a handicap.
Napoleon Bonaparte
In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Napoleon Bonaparte
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Let the path be open to talent.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Medicines are only fit for old people.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
Napoleon Bonaparte
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Napoleon Bonaparte
One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.
Napoleon Bonaparte
