The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten and goes on fighting.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Time is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at and who steals what is most precious to men.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

To do all that one is able to do is to be a man to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

War is the business of barbarians.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

What is history, but a fable agreed upon?

— Napoleon Bonaparte

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battlefield, they have all one rank in my eyes.

— Napoleon Bonaparte