3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one’s designs to one’s means.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Napoleon Bonaparte If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
