Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Men of genius are meteors destined
to burn themselves out in lighting
up their age.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The torment of precautions often
exceeds the dangers to be
avoided.  It is sometimes better
to abandon one's self to destiny.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Nothing is more difficult, and
therefore more precious, than to be
able to decide.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Let France have good mothers, and
she will have good sons.

Napoleon Bonaparte

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

Napoleon Bonaparte

Religion is excellent stuff for
keeping common people quiet.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Ambition is never content, even on
the summit of greatness.

Napoleon Bonaparte

Ambition never is in a greater
hurry that I; it merely keeps pace
with circumstances and with my
general way of thinking.

Napoleon Bonaparte