"The people to fear are not those..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“A throne is only a bench covered with velvet.”

“Men take only their needs into consideration - never their abilities.”

“Men who have changed the world never achieved their success by winning the chief citizens to their side, but always by stirring the masses.”

“A modest ring at the bell at length allayed her fears, and Miss Benton, hurrying into her own room and shutting herself up, in order that she might preserve that appearance of being taken by surprise which is so essential to the polite reception of visitors, awaited their coming with a smiling countenance.”

“Fear can only prevail when victims are ignorant of the facts.”

“"Then what can you want to do now?" said the old lady,gaining courage. "I wants to make your flesh creep," replied the boy.”

“Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.”

“You do not know the unfathomable cowardice of humanity...servile in the face of force, pitiless in the face of weakness, implacable before blunders, indulgent before crimes...and patient to the point of martyrdom before all the violences of bold despotism.”

“So where it is a general rule that it is wrong to gratify lovers, this can be attributed to the defects of those who make that rule: the government's lust for rule and the subjects' cowardice.”