Quote #202
When he who measures the duration of life has pronounced his secret, all the sciences of humanity are but useless essays.
More from Napoleon Bonaparte
- We walk faster when we walk alone.
- You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.
- We must take things as we find them, and not as we wish them to be.
- You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.
- We must not take up arms for vain prospects of grandeur, nor the allurements of conquest.
- Quoted in Representative Men: Uses of Great Men by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- We must not obstinately contend against circumstances, but rather let us obey them. We have many projects in life but little determination.
- You would make a ship sail against the winds and currents by lighting a bonfire under her deck? Excuse me, I have no time to listen to such…