French emperor and military commander who rose to prominence during the French Revolution and led successful campaigns during the Revolutionary Wars
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.
Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
All religions have been made by men.
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
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.