Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte

"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots."

"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."

"Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities."

"There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time."

"All religions have been made by men."

"Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues."

"Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals."

"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies."

"The human race is governed by its imagination."

"Imagination rules the world."

"A leader is a dealer in hope."

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

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."

"What is history but a fable agreed upon?"

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."

"The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means."

"The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence and the great welcome them out of vanity or need."

"When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity."

"I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other."