"After me, the Revolution - or, rather..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers.”

“The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.”

“Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen.”

“The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.”

“A little revolution is a good thing.”

“I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution.”

“History never repeats itself; at best it sometimes rhymes.”

“The countries the most famous and the most respected of antiquity are those which distinguished themselves by promoting and patronizing science, and on the contrary those which neglected or discouraged it are universally denominated rude and barbarous.”

“A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers.”