Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment. – Napoleon Bonaparte

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy. – Napoleon Bonaparte
Courage is like love it must have hope for nourishment. – Napoleon Bonaparte
I base my calculations on the expectation that luck will be against me – Napoleon Bonaparte
The infectiousness of crime is like that of the plague. – Napoleon Bonaparte
History fades into fable; fact becomes clouded with doubt and controversy; the inscription molders from the tablet: the statue falls from the pedestal. Columns, arches, pyramids, what are they but heaps of sand; and their epitaphs, but characters written in the dust? – Washington Irving, The Sketch Book: Westminster Abbey