Quotes by Napoléon Bonaparte

“The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.”

“The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.”

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.”

“Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.”

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.”

“Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.”

“Women are nothing but machines for producing children.”

“The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.”

“The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.”

“Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.”

“What is history but a fable agreed upon?”

“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.”

“Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.”

“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.”

“One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.”

“To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.”

“There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.”

“The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.”

“Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.”