"I have always been the victim of my attachment to him. He only loves you by fits and starts, that is, when he has need of you."
— Napoleon

January 1, 1970

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Jean Lannes, statement during the Siege of Danzig (March 1807), quoted in John Holland Rose, The Life of Napoleon I, Vol. II (1902), p. 193