Napoleon Bonaparte

“Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.”

“It is my wish that my ashes may repose on the banks of the Seine, in the midst of the French people, whom I have loved so well.”

“A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.”

“When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.”

“With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.”

“If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.”

“We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.”

“When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.”

“War is the business of barbarians.”

“The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.”

“The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.”

“Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.”

“Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.”

“A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets.”

“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.”

“A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.”

“The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.”

“Respect the burden.”

“A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view.”

“From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.”