To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty.
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.
It is not by whining that one carries out the job of king.
Put your iron hand in a velvet glove.
It requires more courage to suffer than to die.
I have noticed in every campaign that I have fought-that there is a key segment of time, somewhere between 13 and 15 minutes in which the battle is won or lost. I focus on that segment of time, and I win.