Quotes, Quotations and Sayings

Secrets travel fast in Paris.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear.

Men are lead by trifles.

A true man hates no one.

Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napoleon --but we went right on. Look at Harpo Marx --the world went around, it didn't stop for a second. It's sad but true. John Kennedy, right?

The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

History is powerful stuff. One day your world is fine. The next day it's knocked for a metaphysical loop. Was Napoleon really at Waterloo Would that change what I had for breakfast

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

The greatest horrors in the history of mankind are not due to the ambition of the Napoleons or the vengeance of the Agamemnons, but to the doctrinaire philosophers. The theories of the sentimentalist Rousseau inspired the integrity of the passionless Robespierre. The cold-blooded calculations of Karl Marx led to the judicial and business-like operations of the Cheka.

The only victory over love is flight.

Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve Napolean Hill or Earl Nightingale

The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.

The art of government is not to let me grow stale.

If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.

There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Men will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.

Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest

Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

High culture is nothing but a child of that European perversion called history, the obsession we have with going forward, with considering the sequence of generations a relay race in which everyone surpasses his predecessor, only to be surpassed by his successor. Without this relay race called history there would be no European art and what characterizes it: a longing for originality, a longing for change. Robespierre, Napoleon, Beethoven, Stalin, Picasso, they're all runners in the relay race, they all belong to the same stadium.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

As for me, to love you alone, to make you happy, to do nothing which would contradict your wishes, this is my destiny and the meaning of my life.

There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.

Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.

Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.

Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.

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

Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Chance is the providence of adventurers.

Character is victory organized.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.

A Constitution should be short and obscure.

I have only one counsel for you -- be master.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Let the path be open to talent.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.