Talk:Napoléon/@comment-31760473-20181130110318/@comment-28209103-20181130115301

Roughly speaking there's 2 kinds of public figure heroes in this world : The one who hailed as hero during his heydays but lost and are known as villain. and the one who're known as villain on his life but never lose and ended up remembered as a hero and symbol.

Emperor Napoleon is the former while people like Genghis Khan and Alexander the Great is example of the latter.

The reason IMO is because generally it's possible for human to pass down knowledge but not experience, the spirit of the era; as the german put it, are lost with time leaving only the deed and result of his lifetime.

This also applied to our life, no matter how many good thing you pile up in your life one screw up will be all it takes to ruin your reputation almost completely.