I believe love to be hurtful to society, and to the individual happiness of men. I believe, in short, that love does more harm than good.
Napoleon BonaparteMen 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 BonaparteIt is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful.
Napoleon BonaparteImpatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.
Napoleon Bonaparte