Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes on Truth
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What then is, generally speaking, the truth of history ? A fable agreed upon.
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Authoritarian government required to speak, is silent... Representative government required to speak, lies with impunity.
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Friendship is but a name.
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It is the province of honest men to enlighten the government.
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Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
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So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.
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The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
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The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.
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The true character of man ever displays itself in great events.
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There are calumnies against which even innocence loses courage.
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To have a right estimate of a man's character, we must see him in misfortune.
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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.