Quote #24
The hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.
More from Napoleon Bonaparte
- Waterloo will wipe out the memory of my forty victories; but that which nothing can wipe out is my Civil Code. That will live forever.
- Among so many conflicting ideas an so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked…
- Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.
- Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.
- Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.
- Kiss the feet of Popes provided their hands are tied
- Muhammad was a great man, fearless soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Badr, great captain, eloquent, a great man …
- Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men.