“Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.”
More from Napoleon on Philosophy
“The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.”
“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”
“To do all that one is able to do is to be a man to do all that one would like to do is to be a god.”
“The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.”
“Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.”
“There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.”
“Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.”
“The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence; and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.”
“Perhaps we shall learn, as we pass through this age, that the 'other self" is more powerful than the physical self we see when we look into a mirror.”
“There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“How much vanity must be concealed – not too effectively at that – in order to pretend that one is the personal object of...”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“One does not hate as long as one has a low esteem of someone, but only when one esteems him as an equal or a superior.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.”
Immanuel Kant
20 quotes“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“All things flow nothing abides.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“We are here and it is now. Further than that, all human knowledge is moonshine.”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“[Consciousness] is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“Consciousness is man's greatest misfortune, still I know that man loves it and will not exchange it for any satisfaction...”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”
Hermann Hesse
13 quotes“The middle class prefers comfort to pleasure convenience to liberty and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner co...”
Isaac Asimov
13 quotes“Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience.”