"When I was happy I thought I..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them.”

“The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world.”

“One might as well try to charge through a wall.”

“The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression.”

“The perception of the comic is a tie of sympathy with other men.”

“When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy.”

“To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.”

“Be willing to have it so. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.”

“When Opportunity came, the person didn't realize it because it came in the form of misfortune.”