“ For the maintenance of peace nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon-shots. Napoleon
“ Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness the hideous ingratitude of man. Napoleon
“ Give me a man with a good allowance of nose ... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose. Napoleon
“ A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage. Napoleon
“ The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world. Napoleon
“ France always has plenty men of talent but it is always deficient in men of action and high character. Napoleon
“ Alexander Caesar Charlemagne and I myself have founded empires but upon what do these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love and to this very day mill… Napoleon
