Napoleon Bonaparte

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people.

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.

The tools to him that can handle them.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

One must not offend a man who has just been hanged.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.

The hand that gives is above the hand that takes.

The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast.

What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion.

The more you do, the more you can do. The less you do, the less you can do.

To understand the man, you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

The greater the man, the less he is subject to fortune; he depends on himself and his own resources.

The people to whom I have given the most liberties are the ones who have done me the most harm.

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up.

The art of war is like that of governing, to unite, to concentrate, and to act.

The only conquests which are permanent are those of the mind.