"Victory belongs to the most persevering."

坚持必将成功。


"Adversity is the midwife of genius."


逆境造就天才。


"Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains."


所谓的天才是不断地承受痛楚。


"Men are more easily governed through their vices than their virtues."


人们较易于受邪恶的摆布胜于受道德的约束。


"Circumstances? I make circumstances!"


英雄造时势。


"Men take only their needs into consideration, never their abilities."


人们常只想到自己的需要，而没考虑自己的能力。


"My motto has always been: a career open to all talents, without
distinction of birth."


我的座右铭是：职业不分贵贱，唯才适用。


"Men are moved by only two levers: fear and self interest."


恐惧和兴趣能激励人。


"Be successful! I judge men only by the results of their actions."


一定要成功﹗我只以成败论英雄。


"I like honest men of all colors."


我喜欢所有诚实的人。


"I start out by believing the worst."


我凡事先做好最坏的打算。


"It requires more courage to suffer than to die."


茍活比牺牲需要更多的勇气。


"The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast."


能杀死我的那颗子弹至今尚未铸造出来。


"I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest."


我已做了所有的打算，其余就交给上帝了。


"Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what
fate has predestined."


生死有命，没有人能要求多活一秒钟。


"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."


荣耀转眼即逝；而平凡才是永恒。


"God has given me the will and the force to overcome all obstacles."


上帝已赋予我克服种种困难的意志与力量。


"If I had not been born Napoleon, I would have liked to have been born
Alexander."


如果今天我不是拿破仑的话，我想成为亚历山大。


"Imagination rules the world."


统治这个世界的是想像力。


"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."


信仰使穷人不至于去谋害富人。


"The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to
one's means."


一个人的计划与实践存在太大的落差即是疯狂的表现。


"The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of
the future."


聪明的人谈现在，愚蠢的人谈过去，傻子才谈未来。


"We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him. "


与其后来替一个人婉惜，不如先嘲笑他算了。


"When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna."


一旦你着手要攻下维也纳，就把她拿下吧﹗


"What I did is immense. What I had decided to do, and what I had
projected were still more so"


我所做的是大事业，而我当初的决定与计划亦是如此。


"The word 'impossible' is not in my dictionary."


在我的字典里找不到「不可能」这个字。


"I wished to found a European system, a European Code of Laws, a
European judiciary; there would be but one people in Europe."


我想建立一个整合的欧洲体系，包含了法律，法庭，与人种。


"The French complain of everything, and always."


法国人终其一生都在抱怨所有的事。


"He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat."


害怕被征服的人，注定要失败。


"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived,
stop thinking and go."


事前考虑清楚，可是一旦到了该行动的时候，就要毫不犹豫，放手一搏。


" Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be
able to decide. "


做决定是困难的，也因此益发珍贵


"A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do
everything."


敢说的人，就做得到。


"Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it."


勇气」就像「爱情」，需要「希望」来灌溉。


"I reign only through the fear I inspire."


我是靠人们对我的敬畏来统治的。


"I should have conquered the world."


我本来可以征服整个世界的。