Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?
Napoleon Bonaparte, D. A. Bingham (2010). “A Selection from the Letters and Despatches of the First Napoleon: With Explanatory Notes”, p.24, Cambridge University Press
