Napoleon Bonaparte

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Aussi connu(e) sous :	Napoléon Bonaparte, Napoleon I of France, Napoleone di Buonaparte
Date de naissance :	15 Août 1769
Ville de naissance :	Ajaccio
Nationalité :	France
Sexe :	Masculin
Ethnie :	French people
Religion :	Roman Catholicism, Deism
Date de décès :	05 Mai 1821
Cause du décès :	Arsenic poisoning,Stomach cancer
Ville de décès :	Saint Helena
Ville d'enterrement :	Les Invalides

Biographie

Napoléon Bonaparte fut général, Premier consul, puis empereur des Français. Il fut un conquérant de l'Europe continentale.

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Citations de Napoleon Bonaparte

• “ Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
• “ The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains”
• “ The art of government is not to let me grow stale.”

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• “ Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
• “ The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains”
• “ The art of government is not to let me grow stale.”
• “ The most insupportable of tyrannies is that of inferiors.”
• “ Do you know what amazes me more than anything else? The impotence of force to organize anything.”
• “ The conscience is the sacred haven of the liberty of man.”
• “ It is the cause, not the death that makes the martyr.”
• “ Respect the burden.”
• “ A great king”
• “ The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.”
• “ There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.”
• “ When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.”
• “ Order marches with weighty and measured strides. Disorder is always in a hurry.”
• “ Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.”
• “ Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies.”
• “ Medicines are only fit for old people.”
• “ A Constitution should be short and obscure.”
• “ Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”
• “ With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.”
• “ If you wish to be success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.”
• “ In politics, an absurdity in public business is going into it.”
• “ Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”
• “ The future destiny of the child is always the work of the mother.”
• “ Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.”
• “ Let the path be open to talent.”
• “ My downfall raises me to infinite heights.”
• “ It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”
• “ Every private in the French army carries a Field Marshall wand in his knapsack.”
• “ Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.”
• “ Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.”
• “ 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 love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.”
• “ Men are lead by trifles.”
• “ True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.”
• “ There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.”
• “ The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.”
• “ One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.”
• “ An order that can be misunderstood will be misunderstood.”
• “ Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.”
• “ Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.”
• “ I made all my generals out of mud.”
• “ Truth alone wounds.”
• “ When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.”
• “ Great people are meteors designed to burn so that the earth may be lighted.”
• “ Vengeance has no foresight.”
• “ We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.”
• “ The French complain of everything, and always.”
• “ In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.”
• “ You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.”
• “ There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear.”
• “ The human race is governed by its imagination.”
• “ The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.”
• “ Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires; but what foundation did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded an empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him.”
• “ In politics, an absurdity is not a handicap.”
• “ The only King of France worthy of the name”
• “ I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.”
• “ Who saves his country violates no law.”
• “ From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.”
• “ 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 most dangerous moment comes with victory.”
• “ If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.”
• “ The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.”
• “ A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.”
• “ Imagination rules the world.”
• “ Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.”
• “ The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.”
• “ A man's palate can, in time, become accustomed to anything.”
• “ Public instruction should be the first object of government.”
• “ Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest”
• “ A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.”
• “ When I want any, good head work done; I always choose a man, if possible with a long nose.”
• “ Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.”
• “ I have only one counsel for you -- be master.”
• “ There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.”
• “ The only victory over love is flight.”
• “ The art of the police is not to see what it is useless that it should see.”
• “ Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.”
• “ A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.”
• “ Chance is the providence of adventurers.”
• “ Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.”
• “ Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.”
• “ He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.”
• “ The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.”
• “ Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons.”
• “ You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.”
• “ Secrets travel fast in Paris.”
• “ Occupation is the scythe of time.”
• “ When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.”
• “ Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.”
• “ A true man hates no one.”
• “ Character is victory organized.”
• “ The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.”
• “ Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.”
• “ There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.”
• “ Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.”
• “ Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
• “ The torment of precautions often exceeds often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.”
• “ Victory belongs to the most persevering.”
• “ The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.”
• “ If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.”
• “ The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.”
• “ A leader is a dealer in hope.”

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