Napoleon Bonaparte

“A picture is worth a thousand words.”

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

“War is the business of barbarians.”

“It requires more courage to suffer than to die.”

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

“You must not fear death, my lads defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.”

“It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.”

“Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.”

“There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”

“Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.”

“Imagination rules the world.”

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

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

“There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.”

“Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.”

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

“Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.”

“Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.”