Quote #128
Men take only their needs into consideration-never their abilities.
More from Napoleon Bonaparte
- Men are moved by two levers only- fear and self interest.
- My motto has always been: A career open to all talents, without distinctions of birth.
- Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
- Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediate…
- Let China sleep. For when China wakes, it will shake the world.
- Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- It would have been better for the peace of France if this man had never existed.
- Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.