Napoleon I of France: Trending quotes (page 6)

“All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst the less able man sometimes loses everything by neglecting a single one of those chances.”

Napoleon I of France

Letter to Minister of Foreign Affairs, Passariano (26 September 1797), as quoted in Napoleon as a General (1902) by Maximilian Yorck von Wartenburg, p. 269

Chance , Success

“The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.”

Napoleon I of France

Source: Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848), p. 146

Dependency

“Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.”

Napoleon I of France

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

Life , Men , Education , Chance

“In war, luck is half in everything.”

Napoleon I of France

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

War

“The cannibal has left his lair.”

Napoleon I of France

Le Moniteur Universel, March 9, 1815.
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“It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.”

Napoleon I of France

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

“In love the only safety is in flight.”

Napoleon I of France

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

Love

“At dinner, he told us that he was much better, and we pointed out to him, about this, that, for some time however, he had not been out, and had been working eight, ten, or twelve hours a day. "That is just it," said he: "work is my element; I was born and made for it. I have found the limits of my legs; I have found the limits of my eyes; but I have never been able to find the limits of my labour."”

Napoleon I of France

A dîner, il nous disait qu'il se trouvait beaucoup mieux, et nous lui avons fait observer, à ce sujet, que, depuis quelque temps néanmoins, il ne sortait plus, et travaillat huit, dix, douze heures par jour.
«C'est cela même,» disait-il: «le travail est mon élément; je suis né et construit pour le travail. J'ai connu les limites de mes jambes, j'ai connu les limites de mes yeux; je n'ai jamais pu connaître celles de mon travail.»
Mémorial de Sainte Hélène, Volume 6, p. 272 https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=qSliAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA272
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Time

“In war, theory is all right so far as general principles are concerned; but in reducing general principles to practice there will always be danger. Theory and practice are the axis about which the sphere of accomplishment revolves.”

Napoleon I of France

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)

War

“Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.”

Napoleon I of France

As quoted in The Story of World Progress (1922) by Willis Mason West, p. 433
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