Napoleon Bonaparte

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.

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

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

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.

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

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

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.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Women are nothing but machines for producing children.

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.

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

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

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.

An army marches on its stomach.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.