Napoleon's most famous quotes
The top 3 according to 56 votes from people: Soldiers, consider that from the top of these monuments forty centuries look down upon you. · The only true conquests, the only ones that leave no regret, are those made over ignorance. · Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out to light up their century.. (Updated Aug 14, 2025.)
From the sun of Austerlitz to the forty centuries of the Pyramids: Napoleon Bonaparte's best-known lines, with the speech, letter or book they come from.
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Top 11
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Soldiers, consider that from the top of these monuments forty centuries look down upon you.
To his troops before the Pyramids, Egyptian campaign, July 1798.
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The only true conquests, the only ones that leave no regret, are those made over ignorance.
Letter to the Directory, 18 October 1797.
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Men of genius are meteors destined to burn themselves out to light up their century.
Lyon Discourse (Discourse on Happiness), 1791.
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Let them call me what they like, they will not stop me being myself!
On Saint Helena, reported by Las Cases in the Memorial of Saint Helena.
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A society without religion is like a ship without a compass.
Address to the parish priests of Milan, 5 June 1800.
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I owe all my fortune and all the good I have done to my mother.
Said on Saint Helena.
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My policy is to govern men as the greatest number wish to be governed.
To the Council of State, 1 August 1800.
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Behold the sun of Austerlitz!
To his troops before the Battle of Borodino, 7 September 1812.
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He who can say everything can manage to do everything.
Maxim of Napoleon reported by Balzac.
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In love, the only victory is flight.
Maxims and Thoughts.
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A good sketch is better than a long speech.
Maxim attributed to the Emperor.
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