Napoleon

If you want to get on in this world make many promises, but don’t keep them.

Napoleon

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

Napoleon

Immortality is the best recollection one leaves.

Napoleon

In a narrow sphere great men are blunderers.

Napoleon

In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them.

Napoleon

In time of revolution, with perseverance and courage, a soldier should think nothing impossible.

Napoleon

In war there is but one favorable moment; the great art is to seize it!

Napoleon

Insubordination may only be the evidence of a strong mind.

Napoleon

It is astonishing what power words have over men.

Napoleon

It is not necessary to bury the truth. It is sufficient merely to delay it until nobody cares.

Napoleon