Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Respect the burden.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The army is the true nobility of our country.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The French complain of everything, and always.
Napoleon Bonaparte

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

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

The human race is governed by its imagination.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague.
Napoleon Bonaparte