Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Witty, Funny Inspirational, Business

  "The Military Quotation Book" by James Charlton, (p. 93), 2002.

• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Wisdom, Art, Military

• No one but myself can be blamed for my fall. I have been my own greatest enemy-the cause of my own disastrous fate.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Fall, Fate, Enemy

• Friends must always be treated as if one day they might be enemies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Enemy, One Day, Might

• Remember, gentlemen, what a Roman emperor said: The corpse of an enemy always smells sweet.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Sweet, War, Smell

• Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Enemy, Wrong Things

• Never interfere with an enemy in the process of destroying himself.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Enemy, Process, Destroying

• Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, Men, Waiting

• In war you see your own troubles; those of the enemy you cannot see. You must show confidence.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Enemy, Trouble

• Better to have an open enemy, than hidden friends.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Enemy

• Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Enemy, Religion

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

• We should always go before our enemies with confidence, otherwise our apparent uneasiness inspires them with greater boldness.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Inspire, Enemy

• 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

  Enemy, Chaos, Winner

• Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Worst Enemy, Enemy, Mankind

• You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Death, War, Enemy

  "Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources" by Rev. James Wood, (p. 567), 1899.

• When your enemy is doing something wrong, do not interrupt him.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Enemy

• Machiavelli is right: one always must live with one's friends with the idea that they may turn into one's enemies. He should have said, with everyone.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Should Have, Ideas, Enemy

• It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Enemy, Wish

  Napoleon Bonaparte (2012). “Napoleon's Military Maxims”, p.17, Courier Corporation

• What my enemies call a general peace is my destruction. What I call peace is merely the disarmament of my enemies. Am I not more moderate than they?

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Enemy, Destruction

• Better to have a known enemy than a forced ally.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  War, Enemy, Allies

• France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Army, Leaving, Enemy

  Statement at Paris, January 23, 1814.

• The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Powerful, History, Enemy

• There is no Nation however small which had the right to set itself free, that has not rescued itself from the dishonour of obeying the Prince imposed by an enemy in the hour of victory.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Enemy, Victory, Hours

• Those who failed to oppose me, who readily agreed with me, accepted all my views, and yielded easily to my opinions, were those who did me the most injury, and were my worst enemies, because, by surrendering to me so easily, they encouraged me to go too far... I was then too powerful for any man, except myself, to injure me.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Powerful, Men, Worst Enemy

• If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Past, Enemy, Disregard

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