Better To Have An Open

An Emperor Confides In National Soldiers, Not In Mercenaries.

In Order That A People May Be Free, It Is Necessary That The Governed Be Sages, And Those Who Govern, Gods.

Fashion Condemns Us To Many Follies, The Greatest Is To Make Oneself Its Slave.

Ten People Who Speak Make More Noise Than Ten Thousand Who Are Silent.

What I Have Done Up To This Is Nothing. I Am Only At The Beginning Of The Course I Must Run. Do You Imagine That I Triumph In Italy In Order To Aggrandise The Pack Of Lawyers Who Form The Directory, And Men Like Carnot And Barras? What An Idea!