When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

Topics: Firmness Quotes

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone...

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone...

I must see her and press her to my heart. I love her to the...

I must see her and press her to my heart. I love her to the...

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

Let the path be open to talent.

Let the path be open to talent.

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

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

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life...

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life...

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

Vengeance has no foresight

Vengeance has no foresight

Truth fears no question.

Truth fears no question.

Revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets

Revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

France has more need of me than I have need of France.

If I had believed in a God of rewards and punishments, I might have lost...

If I had believed in a God of rewards and punishments, I might have lost...

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence

Credulity is belief in slight evidence, with no evidence, or against evidence

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.

When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.