Quote #148
Some men have sufficient strength of mind to change their disposition, or at least to yield to imperative circumstances.
More from Napoleon Bonaparte
- So you think the police foresees and knows everything. The police invents more than it discovers.
- Speeches pass away, but acts remain.
- Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.
- Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the latter than the former. Space we can recover, lost time …
- Six hours sleep for a man, seven for a woman and eight for a fool.
- Stupidity is not a handicap in politics.
- Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.
- Such work as mine is not done twice in a century. I saved the Revolution as it lay dying, I have cleansed it of its crimes and have held it…