Napoleon

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

Napoleon

So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.

Napoleon

Society is impossible without inequality, inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion.

Napoleon

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.

Napoleon

Sometimes a great example is necessary to all the public functionaries of the state.

Napoleon

Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

Napoleon

Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time.

Napoleon

Take a dose of medicine once, and in all probability you will be obliged to take an additional hundred afterwards

Napoleon

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Napoleon

The admiral needs only one science, that of navigation. The general needs all the sciences.

Napoleon