Did the Emperor not say last year that peace would come in October, and again this year in October?
Since he said it, how can it come?
The ambitions and the actions of men, my friend, are determined by their antecedents, their surroundings, and their opportunities--the great deeds of men before them whom consciously or unconsciously they take for models, the codes they are reared by, and the chances that they think they see.

These influences shaped Alexander and Caesar, and they shaped you and me.

Now every monarch on the Continent has behind him the Napoleonic example.

"Can I do that ?" crosses the mind of every one.

Of course every one thinks of himself as doing it beneficently--for the good of the world.
Napoleon, himself, persuaded himself of his benevolent intentions, and the devil of it was he persuaded other people also.