Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there has even been, and in him the problem of the noble ideal as such made flesh–one might well ponder what kind of problem it is; Napoleon this synthesis of the inhuman and the superhuman – Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo

Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there has even been, and in him the problem of the noble ideal as such made flesh–one might well ponder what kind of problem it is; Napoleon this synthesis of the inhuman and the superhuman – Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals/Ecce Homo