Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success.
Napoleon BonaparteThe secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time.
Napoleon BonaparteOne must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
Napoleon BonaparteThere is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it.
Napoleon Bonaparte