Conversations avec General Bertrand à St. Helena
Napoleon Bonaparte Berühmte Zitate
Vor der Schlacht bei den Pyramiden, 21. Juli 1798
Original franz.: "Soldats, songez que du haut de ces pyramides quarante siècles vous contemplent!"
„Vom Erhabenen zum Lächerlichen ist nur ein Schritt.“
10. Dezember 1812 in Warschau, nach Friedrich Saalfeld: Geschichte Napoleon Buonaparte's. 2. Band. F. A. Brockhaus 1817 S. 477 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=KOBBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA477&dq=Erhabenen & 479 <br class="br">Original franz.: "Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas." - Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon 1906 bei zeno.org http://www.zeno.org/nid/20006523668
Brief an Talleyrand vom 12. März 1807, zitiert bei Hugo Friedrich Philipp Johann Freiherr von Freytag-Loringhoven: Die Heerführung Napoleons in ihrer Bedeutung für unsere Zeit (1910) S. 27 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=4MkJAAAAIAAJ&q=Kinderspiel <br class="br">"Aujourd'hui le sort de l'Europe et les plus grands calculs dépendent des subsistances. Battre les Russes, si j'ai du pain, c'est un enfantillage." - Correspondance (1863) p. 432 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=z63SAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA432&dq=enfantillage
Napoleon Bonaparte: Zitate auf Englisch
Abraham Lincoln, Speech at New Haven, Connecticut https://archive.is/oYxvX (6 March 1860). <br class="br">About
Quelle: Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848), p. 246
“Aristocracy is the spirit of the Old Testament, democracy of the New.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am.”
As quoted in The Story of World Progress (1922) by Willis Mason West, p. 433
Attributed
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
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.<br>«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.» <br class="br">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 <br class="br">About
“In love the only safety is in flight.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“The cannibal has left his lair.”
Le Moniteur Universel, March 9, 1815.
About
“In war, luck is half in everything.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.”
Quelle: Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848), p. 146
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
“The tyrant has crossed Lyons.”
Le Moniteur Universel, March 13, 1815.
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Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Policy and morals concur in repressing pillage.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Never march by flank in front of an army in position. This principle is absolute.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“The life of a citizen is the property of his country.”
Political Aphorisms, Moral and Philosophical Thoughts (1848)
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
“The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.”
Statement at Montereau (17 February 1814)
“A general must be a charlatan.”
Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
