The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy.
Napoleon BonaparteThe reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.
Napoleon BonaparteThis soldier, I realized, must have had friends at home and in his regiment; yet he lay there deserted by all except his dog. I looked on, unmoved, at battles which decided the future of nations. Tearless, I had given orders which brought death to thousands. Yet here I was stirred, profoundly stirred, stirred to tears. And by what? By the grief of one dog. Napoleon Bonaparte, on finding a dog beside the body of his dead master, licking his face and howling, on a moonlit field after a battle. Napoleon was haunted by this scene until his own death.
Napoleon Bonaparte