Napoleon I

Quotes by Napoleon I

• There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

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• Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

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• The poor man commands respect; the beggar must always excite anger.

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• The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

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• Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

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• Collective crimes incriminate no one.

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• Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

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• Civilization does everything for the mind and favors it entirely at the expense of the body.

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• Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

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• Diplomacy is the police in grand costume.

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• A man becomes the creature of his uniform.

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• There is no real force without justice.

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• We may stop ourselves when going up, never when coming down.

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• Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man.

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• There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.

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• When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready.

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• The French complain of everything, and always.

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• Fashion condemns us to many follies; the greatest is to make oneself its slave.

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• The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense-he is always satisfied with himself.

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• The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

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