There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment.

Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion.

If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

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.

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.

If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.