Napoleon Bonaparte
France
15 Aug 1769 // 5 May 1821
General / Emperor
15 Aug 1769 // 5 May 1821
General / Emperor
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If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god
If I always appear prepared, it is because before entering an undertaking, I have meditated long and have foreseen what might occur. It is not genius where reveals to me suddenly and secretly what I should do in circumstances unexpected by others; it is thought and preparation
I made all my generals out of mud
I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies
I have only one counsel for you - be master
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up
I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays