“ Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just a general of forgotten battles compared with the queen who paid for Shakes… Roman Payne
“ Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there has even been, and in him the problem of the noble ideal as such made flesh--one might well ponder… Friedrich Nietzsche
“ Historians are lenient to those who succeed and stern to those who fail; in this, and this alone, they display strong political sense. J. Christopher Herold
“ Who is fit to be elected?' asked Napoleon. 'A Caesar, an Alexander only comes along once a century, so that election must be a matter of chance. Simon Sebag Montefiore
