Passions Change, Politics Are Immutable.

Chess Is Too Difficult To Be A Game And Not Serious Enough To Be A Science Or An Art.

When People Cease To Complain, They Cease To Think.

If I Always Appear Prepared, It Is Because Before Entering An Undertaking, I Have Meditated Long And Have Foreseen What Might Occur. It Is Not Genius Which Reveals To Me Suddenly And Secretly What I Should Do In Circumstances Unexpected By Others; It Is Thought And Preparation

I Am A Monarch Of God's Creation, And You Reptiles Of The Earth Dare Not Oppose Me. I Render An Account Of My Government To None Save God And Jesus Christ.

I Closed The Gulf Of Anarchy And Brought Order Out Of Chaos. I Rewarded Merit Regardless Of Birth Or Wealth, Wherever I Found It. I Abolished Feudalism And Restored Equality To All Regardless Of Religion And Before The Law. I Fought The Decrepit Monarchies Of The Old Regime Because The Alternative Was The Destruction Of All This. I Purified The Revolution.