14 Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes on Life

Napoleon Bonaparte quotes on life

1. Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?

21. Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.

26. Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

62. Better not to have been born than to live without glory.

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

123. It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

167. The nature of Christ's existence is mysterious, I admit; but this mystery meets the wants of man. Reject it and the world is an inexplicable riddle; believe it, and the history of our race is satisfactorily explained.

175. The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.

183. There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.

186. To abandon oneself to despair without a struggle, to commit suicide as a relief, is like leaving the field of battle before we have vanquished the enemy.

193. Victory belongs to the most persevering.

195. Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

198. We must not obstinately contend against circumstances, but rather let us obey them. We have many projects in life but little determination.

202. When he who measures the duration of life has pronounced his secret, all the sciences of humanity are but useless essays.