I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

— Napoleon

If they want peace nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

— Napoleon

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

— Napoleon

It is cowardice to commit suicide.

— Napoleon

Men in general are but great children.

— Napoleon

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

— Napoleon

Soldiers forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.

— Napoleon

The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.

— Napoleon

The human race is governed by its imagination.

— Napoleon

The only victory over love is flight.

— Napoleon