More from Napoleon Bonaparte

  1. You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? Excuse me, I have no time to listen to such…
  2. A constitution should be short and obscure.
  3. Quoted in Representative Men: Uses of Great Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson
  4. Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
  5. You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
  6. In early life he may have been a sincere republican; but he hated anarchy and disorder, and, before his campaign in Italy was over, he had …
  7. You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
  8. When he who measures the duration of life has pronounced his secret, all the sciences of humanity are but useless essays.

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