Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes on Life
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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?
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Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.
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Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.
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Better not to have been born than to live without glory.
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
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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.
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The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.
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There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
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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.
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Victory belongs to the most persevering.
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Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
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We must not obstinately contend against circumstances, but rather let us obey them. We have many projects in life but little determination.
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When he who measures the duration of life has pronounced his secret, all the sciences of humanity are but useless essays.