"To live, is to suffer; and the..." - Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte

“We must serve the people worthily, and not occupy ourselves in trying to please them. The best way, to gain their affections is to do them good.”

“The art of war is to gain time when your strength is inferior.”

“Mankind's worst enemy is fear of work”

“The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.”

“A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity "on a square yard of space.”

“Long were the days of pain I have spent within its walls, and long were the nights of aloneness; and who can depart from his pain and his aloneness without regret?”

“I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours. . . . In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.”

“The mintage of wisdom is to know that rest is rust, and that real life is love, laughter, and work.”

“If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next.”