Napoleon Bonaparte

"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in."

"An army marches on its stomach."

"You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war."

"All religions have been made by men."

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."

"Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals."

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."

"He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander."

"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies."

"If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots."

"If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing."

"In politics stupidity is not a handicap."

"In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake."

"It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr."

"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."

"Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues."

"Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities."

"Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows."

"One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent."

"Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me."

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."

"Respect the burden."

"The best cure for the body is a quiet mind."

"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."

"The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains."

"The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue."

"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind."

"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination."

"There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time."

"Women are nothing but machines for producing children."

"You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks."