Napoleon's Maxims & Quotes

On Greatness

• Great men seldom fail in their most perilous enterprises.
  
  
• A great people may be killed, but they cannot be intimidated.
  
  
• Great men, for good, or for bad, resemble each other. Thus it were no sophistry to say: that the soul of Cartouche had something of the Great Condé in it. The revolution produced all sorts of ambitious characters.
  
  
• Great men are those who can subdue both good luck and fortune.
  
  
• He who fears being conquered is certain of defeat.
  
  
• Better not to have been born than to live without glory.
  
  
• All men are equal before God: wisdom, talents, and virtue are the only difference between them.