“Profit by the favors of Fortune while her caprices
favor you; fear only that she will change out of spite; she is a woman.”—French
dictator Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) quoted in Napoleon in His Own Words,
edited by Jules Bertaut, translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln
Rhodes (1916)
(The image accompanying this post, Adolph Northen’s
painting Napoleon’s Retreat from Moscow,
depicts the moment when Fortune turned away from the soldier who once held most
of continental Europe under his thumb. It gives hope—a quality needed now more
than ever—that, with enough time, even the mighty, with all their
unscrupulousness and cruelty, can be brought to heel by fate.)
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