Napoleon

I base my calculation on the expectation that luck will be against me.

Napoleon

I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.

Napoleon

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

Napoleon

I cannot approve of your method of operation, you proceed like a bewildered idiot, taking not the least notice of my orders.

Napoleon

I cannot believe there is a god who punishes and rewards, for I see honest folk unlucky, and rogues unlucky.

Napoleon

I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection.

Napoleon

I feel myself driven towards an end that I do not know. As soon as I shall have reached it, as soon as I shall become unnecessary, an atom will suffice to shatter me. Till then, not all the forces of mankind can do anything against me.

Napoleon

I have come to realise that men are not born to be free.

Napoleon

I have destroyed the enemy merely by marches.

Napoleon

I have doubtless erred more or less in politics, but a crime I never committed.

Napoleon