Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.
~ Napoléon Bonaparte
In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.
A woman laughing is a woman conquered.
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
There are two levers for moving man -- interest and fear.
Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.
A revolution is an idea, taken up by bayonets.
Imagination governs the world.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
Music is what tell us that the human race is greater than we realize.
The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no fatherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.
Courage is like love, it must have hope for nourishment.
As for moral courage, it is very rare, he said, to find that kind found at 2 o'clock in the morning; that is to say, courage in the face of the unexpected.
The surest way to remain poor is to be honest.
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action comes, stop thinking and go in.
The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.
I often asked Laplace what he thought of God. He owned that he was an atheist.
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.
There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.
Men of learning in Milan have not enjoyed proper respect. They hid themselves in their laboratories and thought themselves lucky if . . . priests left them alone. All is changed today. Thought in Italy is free. Inquisition, intolerance, despots have vanished. I invite scholars to meet and propose what must be done to give science and the arts a new flowering.
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for him.
I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay hands on everything they can get.
Ability is of little account without opportunity.
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
If you start to take Vienna take Vienna.
The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue courage is only the second virtue.
As to moral courage I have very rarely met with the two o'clock in the morning kind. I mean unprepared courage that which is necessary on an unexpected occasion and which in spite of the most unforeseen events leaves full freedom of judgement and decision.
One must change one's tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one's superiority.
The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes.
All the scholastic scaffolding falls as a ruined edifice before a single word: faith.
Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever.
All celebrated people lose dignity on a close view.
The art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs.
