To Make Yourself Understood To People, One

The Heart May Be Broken, And The Soul Remain Unshaken.

What I Have Done Up To This Is Nothing. I Am Only At The Beginning Of The Course I Must Run. Do You Imagine That I Triumph In Italy In Order To Aggrandise The Pack Of Lawyers Who Form The Directory, And Men Like Carnot And Barras? What An Idea!

Large Legislative Bodies Resolve Themselves Into Coteries, And Coteries Into Jealousies.

Give Me Enough Ribbons To Place On The Tunics Of My Soldiers And I Can Conquer The World.

Die Young, And I Shall Accept Your Death-but Not If You Have Lived Without Glory, Without Being Useful To Your Country, Without Leaving A Trace Of Your Existence: For That Is Not To Have Lived At All.