We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Profession: Leader Nationality: French
Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.
More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one.
The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.
War is the business of barbarians.
To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
My conscience is the tribunal before which I call my conduct.
Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
Men of great ambition have sought happiness . . . and have found fame.
The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.
You wish to sail a ship up stream by lighting a fire under its decks, I have no time for such nonsense.
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.
