When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison or other extraordinary person, we understand that the measure of his talent will not explain the whole result, nor even the largest part of it; no, it is the atmosphere in which the talent was cradled that explains; it is the training it received while it grew, the nurture it got from reading, study, example, the encouragement it gathered from self-recognition and recognition from the outside at each stage of its development: when we know all these details, then we know why the man was ready when his opportunity came.
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He is not a great man. None of us are great men. We are just caught in the wave of history.
Napoleon would always be extremely fastidious when it came to other people's morals, although his own were frequently questionable.
I don't know what effect these men will have upon the enemy, but, by God, they frighten me.
No king establishes a kingdom without pouring blood of a nation.