Bonaparte Napóleon idézet

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„Ha mindent megtettél, amire képességeidből telik, ember vagy. Ha mindent megtettél, amit akartál, akkor isten.”

„Aki attól fél, hogy legyőzik, annak biztos a vereség.”

„A védekezésből a támadásba való átállás a háború egyik legkényesebb művelete.”

„Az embereket csak két erő köti össze: a félelem és az érdek.”

„Ne szakítsd félbe az ellenséged, mikor éppen hibát követ el.”

„A legnagyobb erkölcstelenség az, amikor valaki olyan dologba fog, amihez nem ért.”

„A nagy emberek meteorok: felemésztik önmagukat, hogy fénnyel árasszák el a világot.”

„Ha békét tudnék kötni, arra jóval büszkébb lennék, mint a katonai sikerek révén szerzett kétes hírnévre…”

„Már nincs messze az idő, amikor tudatára fogunk jutni annak, hogy Angliában csak úgy szállhatunk partra, ha előbb meghódítjuk Egyiptomot.”

„Röviden és homályosan fogalmazzatok!”

„A politikában ismeretlen fogalom a szív, csak a fej számít.”

„Amelyik hadvezér ütközet előtt túl sokat törődik a tartalékokkal, azt biztosan legyőzik.”

„A szerelem a közembernek elfoglaltság, a harcosnak szórakozás, az uralkodónak üdülés.”

„Csak a korgó gyomrok forradalma veszedelmes.”

„A bátorságot nem lehet hamisítani, olyan erény, amely nem ismer képmutatást.”

“Europe is a molehill. It has never had any great empires, like those of the Orient, numbering six hundred million souls.”

“Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people.”

“He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly.”

“Aristocracy is the spirit of the Old Testament, democracy of the New.”

“Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.”

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

“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.”

“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."”

“In love the only safety is in flight.”

“It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.”

“The cannibal has left his lair.”

“In war, luck is half in everything.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“The tyrant has crossed Lyons.”

“Some revolutions are inevitable. There are moral eruptions, just as the outbreak of volcanoes are physical eruptions. When the chemical combinations which produce them are complete, the volcanic eruptions burst forth, just as revolutions do when the moral factors are in the right state. In order to foresee them the trend of ideas must be understandingly observed.”

“Policy and morals concur in repressing pillage.”

“Never march by flank in front of an army in position. This principle is absolute.”

“The religious zeal which animates priests, leads them to undertake labors and to brave perils which would be far beyond the powers of one in secular employment.”

“The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense — he is always satisfied with himself.”

“From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs.”

“We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.”

“Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.”

“The life of a citizen is the property of his country.”

“The general of the sea has need of only one science, that of navigation. The one on land has need of all, or of a talent which is the equivalent of all, that will enable him to profit by all experience, and all knowledge. A general of the sea has nothing to divine. He knows where his enemy is, he knows his strength. A general on land never knows anything with certainty, never sees his enemy well, and never knows positively where he is.”

“The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.”

“A general must be a charlatan.”

“Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined.”