I do not amuse myself by thinking of dead people.

In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.

Anarchy is the stepping stone to absolute power.

Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

I have never loved anyone for love's sake except, perhaps, Josephine - a little.