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41 " The only victory over love is flight. "
― Napoléon Bonaparte
42 " Victory belongs to the most persevering. "
43 " It requires more courage to suffer than to die. "
44 " War is the business of barbarians. "
45 " You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. "
46 " 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. "
― Napoléon Bonaparte , Napoleon's Art of War
47 " Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. "
48 " Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. "
49 " Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. "
50 " Women are nothing but machines for producing children. "
51 " The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. "
52 " Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. "
53 " A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. "
54 " A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. "
55 " I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other. "
56 " If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. "
57 " If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. "
58 " To understand the man you have to know what was happening in the world when he was twenty. "
59 " Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.. "
60 " When your opponent is making a mistake, do nothing to interfere. "