“So divine an illumination is always linked to youth and productivity; and in very truth, Napoleon was one of the most productive men that ever lived.”— Napoleon, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, amazon.comTagged: strategy
“Everything is simple and definite; there is no much fixity of purpose that everyone wishes to comply. You are vassals, but free. I am your master but I will protect you. Five hundred pieces of ordinance and the friendship of France. Such is my will. Then it is all over.”— Napoleon, amazon.comTagged: strategy
“The fortune of war, dear Massena, changes from day to day. Tomorrow or later, we shall win back what you have just lost.”— Napoleon, Emil Ludwig, amazon.comTagged: strategy
“He will not go far who knows from the first whither he is going.”— Napoleon, amazon.comTagged: strategy
“The lesson he teaches is that which vigor he always teaches—that there is always room for it.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson, amazon.comTagged: Life
“There is nothing in life worse than a battle won, except a battle lost.”— Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, amazon.comTagged: Life