"The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague."

"10 persons who speak make more noise than 10 000 who are silent."

"All religions have been made by men."

"In our time no one has the conception of what is great. It is up to me to show them."

"Men take only their needs into consideration never their abilities."

"The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know."

"Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult."

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."

"Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength."

"Let the path be open to talent."

"Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances."

"Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment."

"A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view."

"The first virtue in a soldier is endurance of fatigue; courage is only the second virtue."

"Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them."

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

"To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god."

"This man Wellington is so stupid he does not know when he is beaten and goes on fighting."

"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."

"The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance."

"When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity."

"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."

"History is written by the winners."

"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools."

"The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means."

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."

"A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet."

"A throne is only a bench covered with velvet."

"If you start to take Vienna take Vienna."

"A true man hates no one."

"Victory belongs to the most persevering."

"If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing."

"The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind."

"One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent."

"It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr."

"You may ask me for anything you like except time."

"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."

"All the scholastic scaffolding falls as a ruined edifice before a single word: faith."

"Fashion condemns us to many follies the greatest is to make oneself its slave."

"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap."

"If you start to take Vienna - take Vienna."

"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination."

"A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories."

"What is history but a fable agreed upon?"

"Respect the burden."

"Imagination rules the world."

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

"A picture is worth a thousand words."

"Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them."