Napoleon's Words of
Wisdow
- Even when I am gone, I shall remain
in people's
minds the star of their rights, my name will be the
war cry of their efforts, the motto of their hopes.
- Ten people who speak make more
noise than ten thousand who are silent.
- In politics stupidity is not a
handicap.
- A man will fight harder for his
interests than for his rights.
- History is the version of past
events that people have decided to agree
upon.
- A society without religion is like
a vessel without compass.
- Men of genius are meteors intended
to burn to light their century.
- Know how to listen and be sure that
silence often produces the same effects than
science.
- God! How men of letters are stupid.
- We are born, we live, we die among
supernatural.
- Time is the great art of man.
- It is the success which makes great
men.
- The heart of a statesman must be in
his head.
- From sublime to ridiculousness
there is only one step.
- Lack is more in means than in
principles.
- High politic is only common sense
applied to great things.
- Imagination governs the world.
- Public morals are natural
complement of all laws : they are by themselves an
entire code.
- I know when it is necessary, how to
leave the skin of lion to take one of fox.
Last updated on 1 October 1996
Emin Saglamer emin@mail.utexas.edu