Napoleon Bonaparte

All great events hang by a hair. The man of ability takes advantage of everything and neglects nothing that can give him a chance of success; whilst the less able man sometimes loses everything by neglecting a single one of those chances.

Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.

All authority is in the throne; and what is the throne? This wooden frame covered with velvet? No, I am the throne.

I have fought sixty battles and I have learned nothing which I did not know at the beginning.

A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than an hundred thousand bayonets.

The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided.

Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me.

Waterloo will wipe out the memory of my forty victories; but that which nothing can wipe out is my Civil Code. That will live forever.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.