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In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing. - Friedrich Nietzsche I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. - Benjamin Franklin Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future. - John F. Kennedy Marriage is one long conversation checkered by disputes. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Ability is of little account without opportunity.

- Napoleon | Ability Quotes

The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.

- Napoleon | Bed Quotes

Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne and I myself have founded empires; but upon what do these creations of our genius depend? Upon force. Jesus alone founded His empire upon love; and to this very day millions would die for Him.

- Napoleon | Christ Quotes

A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage.

- Napoleon | Courtesy Quotes

Where flowers degenerate man cannot live.

- Napoleon | Flowers Quotes

Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.

- Napoleon | Foresight Quotes

France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character.

- Napoleon | France Quotes

What is history but a fable agreed upon?

- Napoleon | History Quotes

The human race is governed by its imagination.

- Napoleon | Imagination Quotes

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

- Napoleon | Impossibility Quotes

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

- Napoleon | Ingratitude Quotes

I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets.

- Napoleon | Journalism Quotes

The only victory over love is flight.

- Napoleon | Love Quotes

Men, in general, are but great great children.

- Napoleon | Man Quotes

We must laugh at man, to avoid crying for him.

- Napoleon | Man Quotes

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

- Napoleon | Monuments Quotes

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

- Napoleon | Newspapers Quotes

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.

- Napoleon | Nose Quotes

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

- Napoleon | Peace Quotes

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

- Napoleon | Perseverance Quotes

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

- Napoleon | Ridicule Quotes

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

- Napoleon | Suffering Quotes

It is cowardice to commit suicide.

- Napoleon | Suicide Quotes

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

- Napoleon | Taste Quotes

Public instruction should be the first object of government.

- Napoleon | Teaching Quotes

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

- Napoleon | Trifle Quotes