10 Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes on Legacy

Napoleon Bonaparte quotes on legacy

3. From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

20. 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 of state, it regenerated his homeland, and created in the middle of the deserts of Arabia a new people and a new power.

23. 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.

26. Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

38. Greatness is nothing unless it be lasting.

84. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

96. I feel as if I am being driven towards an unknown goal. As soon as it is attained and there will no longer be any use for me, an atom will be sufficient to annihilate me; but until then, all human efforts whether in Paris or in the army will be powerless to prevail against me.

121. It is the cause, and not the death, that makes the martyr.

149. Speeches pass away, but acts remain.

152. Such work as mine is not done twice in a century. I saved the Revolution as it lay dying, I have cleansed it of its crimes and have held it up to the people shining with fame. I inspired France and Europe with new ideas which will never be forgotten.