Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

Victory belongs to the most persevering.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

[Medicine is] a collection of uncertain prescriptions the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

One should never forbid what one lacks the power to prevent.

—Napoleon Bonaparte

If it is not right, do not do it; if it is not true, do not say it.

—Marcus Aurelius

In a free state there should be freedom of speech and thought.

—Tiberius

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

—Thomas Carlyle

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another.

—Sophocles

Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought.

—Sir William Osler