Strangers are just friends waiting to happen. To become a good man, one must have faithful friends, or outright enemies.

One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Die young, and I shall accept your death-but not if you have lived without glory, without being useful to your country, without leaving a trace of your existence: for that is not to have lived at all.

The most terrible of all my battles was the one before Moscow. The French showed themselves to be worthy of victory, but the Russians showed themselves worthy of being invincible.

Half of the people in the world are below average.

My true glory is not to have won 40 battles ... Waterloo will erase the memory of so many victories, ... But ... what will live forever, is my Civil Code.