Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Napoleon Bonaparte
Age: 52 †
Born: 1769
Born: January 1
Died: 1821
Died: January 1
Art Collector
Emperor
Militant
Military Leader
Military Officer
Politician
Sovereign
Statesman
Statesperson
Aiacciu
Napoléon Bonaparte
Le Petit Caporal
Le Corse
Napoleone di Buonaparte
Napoleon I
by the Grace of God and the Constitutions
Emperor of the French and King of Italy
Empereur des Français Napoléon I
Napoleon Buonaparte
emperador dels francesos Napoleó I
Napoleone Bonaparte
Napoleone Buonaparte
Emperador de Francia Napoleón I
Napoleon I
Na
Ever
Mean
Injuring
Deprive
Enemy
Means
Power
More quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
They are the carrion birds of humanity...[speaking of the Jews] are a state within a state. They are certainly not real citizens...The evils of Jews do not stem from individuals but from the fundamental nature of these people.
Napoleon Bonaparte
To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.
Napoleon Bonaparte
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives.
Napoleon Bonaparte
In war, moral factors acount for three quarters of the whole relative material strength accounts for only one quarter.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.
Napoleon Bonaparte
People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful.
Napoleon Bonaparte
When I had the honor to be a second lieutenant, I ate dry bread, but I never let anyone know that I was poor.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying the Prince imposed by an enemy in the hour of victory.
Napoleon Bonaparte
To attach no importance to public opinion, is a proof that you do not merit its suffrage.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Men will risk their lives, even die for ribbons.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A man is known by his conduct to his wife, to his family, and to those under him.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I make my battle plans from the spirit of my sleeping soldiers
Napoleon Bonaparte
Whatever may be the position in life of a parent, it is his duty to share his crust with his children. If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.
Napoleon Bonaparte
My downfall raises me to infinite heights.
Napoleon Bonaparte
It is exceptional and difficult to find in one man all the qualities necessary for a great general.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Flatterers and men of learning do not accord well with each other.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile.
Napoleon Bonaparte
There must be Religion. Otherwise the poor would murder the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte
