12 Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes on Truth

Napoleon Bonaparte quotes on truth

31. What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history ? A fable agreed upon.

61. Authoritarian government required to speak, is silent... Representative government required to speak, lies with impunity.

83. Friendship is but a name.

122. It is the province of honest men to enlighten the government.

146. Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

147. So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.

159. The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

176. The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.

177. The true character of man ever displays itself in great events.

179. There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.

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188. To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.

191. To write history, one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary should be free from all pre-occupation of interest or of vanity.