Napoleon Bonaparte

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

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 love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

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.

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

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.

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