But that's the point, isn't it. Growing up, people change from what they were as teens. The kids outside my house that spend the Friday evenings kicking the dustbin and throwing cans in the bushed will not be doing that in five years' time. I'm certainly a far better person today than I was at 16. Napoleon's flaws seems only to have grown with time; his teen ambitions turns to something that started to look like megalomania. There is of course nothing wrong with being ambitious, wanting to improve on self. But conquering most of a continent? That didn't happen by accident. He chose to do that. He wanted to do that.