Napoleon Bonaparte

“Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.”

“Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.”

“The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue.”

“England is a nation of shopkeepers.”

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”

“Medicines are only fit for old people.”

“One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.”

“Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.”

“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.”

“France has more need of me than I have need of France.”

“I made all my generals out of mud.”

“Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.”

“The human race is governed by its imagination.”

“In politics stupidity is not a handicap.”

“A true man hates no one.”

“The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.”

“The surest way to remain poor is to be an honest man.”

“Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.”

“Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.”

“Ambition never is in a greater hurry than I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.”