罗素《什么使人不快乐？》：
Usually the megalomaniac, whether insane or nominally sane, is the product of some excessive humiliation. Napoleon suffered at school from inferiority to his schoolfellows, who were rich aristocrats, while he was a penurious scholarship boy. When he allowed the return of the émigrés, he had the satisfaction of seeing his former schoolfellows bowing down before him. What bliss! Yet it led to the wish to obtain a similar satisfaction at the expense of the Czar, and this led to Saint Helena. Since no man can be omnipotent, a life dominated wholly by love of power can hardly fail, sooner or later, to meet with obstacles that cannot be overcome.
自大狂者，不问是病态的或名义上说来是健全的，通常是极度的屈辱的产物。拿破仑在学校里，在一般富有的贵族同学前面感到自惭形秽的苦恼，因为他是一个粗鄙的苦读生。当他后来准许亡命者回国时，看着当年的同学向他鞠躬如也时，他满足了。多幸福！依旧是这种早年的屈辱，鼓动他在沙皇身上去寻求同样的满足，而这满足把他送到了圣·赫勒拿。既然没有一个人是全能的，一场完全被权力之爱所控制的人生，迟早要碰到无可克服的难关。
