Napoleon

For the maintenance of peace nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon-shots.

A man's palate can in time become accustomed to anything.

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

It is cowardice to commit suicide.

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

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

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

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.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Soldiers forty centuries are looking down upon you from these pyramids.

Men in general are but great great children.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

The only victory over love is flight.

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

The human race is governed by its imagination.

Do you know what is more hard to bear than the reverses of fortune? It is the baseness the hideous ingratitude of man.