Napoleon
Bonaparte
1769 - 1821
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Napoleon was favorite subject of French Neoclassical painters. French Neoclassism painters emphasis's patriotism, as well as a sense of civility and honorableness. The movement was particularly connected with the beliefs of the French Revolution and was seen as anti-aristocratic. French painter Jacques-Louis David was infatuated with the former grandeur of Rome and even painted stout and diminutive Napoleon as a magnificent warrior astride a white stallion. Mythology, folklore, legends, and the calm grandeur of a bygone era were all favored themes for Neoclassical painters.
Napoleon
Bonaparte Quotations
Soldiers! Forty
centuries behold you! -
Napoleon Bonaparte
History is a set of lies
agreed upon. - Napoleon
Bonaparte
The moral is to the
physical as three to one
- Napoleon Bonaparte
My business is to
succeed, and I’m good at
it. I create my Iliad by
my actions, create it
day by day.--- Napoleon
Bonaparte
I can no longer obey; I
have tasted command, and
I cannot give it up. ---
Napoleon Bonaparte
The secret of war lies
in the communications -
Napoleon Bonaparte
A throne is only a bench
covered with velvet..---
Napoleon Bonaparte
Quotation
Four hostile newspapers
are more to be feared
than a thousand bayonets
.--- Napoleon Bonaparte
Never interrupt your
enemy when he is making
a mistake..--- Napoleon
Bonaparte
Doctors will have more
lives to answer for in
the next world than even
we generals..---
Napoleon Bonaparte
From the heights of
these pyramids, forty
centuries look down on
us. ..--- Napoleon
Bonaparte Quote
Glory is fleeting, but
obscurity is forever.
.--- Napoleon Bonaparte
History is the version
of past events that
people have decided to
agree upon. .---
Napoleon Bonaparte
Take time to deliberate,
but when the time for
action has arrived, stop
thinking and go in. .---
Napoleon Bonaparte
The best way to keep
one's word is not to
give it. - Napoleon
Bonaparte
Victory belongs to the
most persevering. .---
Napoleon Bonaparte
Medicine is a collection
of uncertain
prescriptions the
results of which, taken
collectively, are more
fatal than useful to
mankind..--- Napoleon
Bonaparte
It is better to have a
known enemy than a
forced ally -.---
Bonaparte quotation
A man does not have
himself killed for a
half-pence a day or for
a petty distinction. You
must speak to the soul
in order to electrify
him .--- Napoleon
Bonaparte Quote
Ability is nothing
without opportunity.
.--- Napoleon
He who knows how to
flatter also knows how
to slander..--- Napoleon
Bonaparte
Conscription is the
vitality of a nation,
the purification of its
morality, and the real
foundations off all its
habits .--- Napoleon
Bonaparte
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. .--- Napoleon
Bonaparte
To have good soldiers, a
nation must always be at
war.-Napoleon Bonaparte
Nothing is more
difficult, and therefore
more precious, than to
be able to decide..---
Napoleon Bonaparte
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