Napoleon never wished to be justified. He killed his enemy according to Corsican traditions [le droit corse] and if he sometimes r...egretted his mistake, he never understood that it had been a crime.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What we take for virtue is often but an assemblage of various ambitions and activities that chance, or our own astuteness, have ar...ranged in a certain manner; and it is not always out of courage or purity that men are brave, and women chaste.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »