Revolutions are like the most noxious dungheaps, which bring into life the noblest vegetables.

Do you wish to find out the really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you.

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.

All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer.

Adversity is the midwife of genius

The unwilling soldier will do anything to fight for a useless fabric piece of ribbon.