QUOTES AND IMAGES: MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV. MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV. Duc de Saint-Simon A cardinal may be poisoned, stabbed, got rid of altogether A good friend when a friend at all, which was rare A King's son, a King's father, andnever a King A lingering fear lest the sick manshould recover A king is made for his subjects, andnot the subjects for him Admit our ignorance, and not to givefictions and inventions Aptitude did not come up to my desire Arranged his affairs that he diedwithout money Artagnan, captain of the greymusketeers Believed that to undertake and succeedwere only the same things But with a crawling baseness equal toher previous audacity Capacity was small, and yet he believedhe knew everything Compelled to pay, who would havepreferred giving voluntarily Conjugal impatience of the Duc deBourgogne Countries of the Inquisition, wherescience is a crime Danger of inducing hypocrisy by placingdevotion too high Death came to laugh at him for thesweating labour he had taken Depopulated a quarter of the realm Desmarets no longer knew of what woodto make a crutch Enriched one at the expense of theother Exceeded all that was promised of her, and all that I had hoped Few would be enriched at the expense ofthe many For penance: "we must make our servantsfast" For want of better support I sustainedmyself with courage Found it easier to fly into a rage thanto reply From bad to worse was easy He had pleased (the King) by his drugs He limped audaciously He was often firm in promises He was so good that I sometimesreproached him for it He was born bored; he was so accustomedto live out of himself He liked nobody to be in any waysuperior to him He was scarcely taught how to read orwrite He was accused of putting on animperceptible touch of rouge Height to which her insignificance hadrisen His death, so happy for him and so sadfor his friends His habits were publicly known to bethose of the Greeks His great piety contributed to weakenhis mind I abhorred to gain at the expense ofothers Ignorance and superstition the first ofvirtues Imagining themselves everywhere inmarvellous danger of capture In order to say something cutting toyou, says it to himself Indiscreet and tyrannical charity Interests of all interested painted ontheir faces It is a sign that I have touched thesore point Jesuits: all means were good thatfurthered his designs Juggle, which put the wealth of Peterinto the pockets of Paul King was being wheeled in his easychair in the gardens Less easily forget the injuries weinflict than those received Madame de Maintenon in returning youngand poor from America Make religion a little more palpable Manifesto of a man who disgorges hisbile Mightily tired of masters and books Monseigneur, who had been outwolf-hunting More facility I have as King to gratifymyself My wife went to bed, and received acrowd of visitors Never been able to bend her to a morehuman way of life Never was a man so ready with tears, sobackward with grief No means, therefore, of being wiseamong so many fools Not allowing ecclesiastics to meddlewith public affairs Of a politeness that was unendurable Oh, my lord! how many virtues you makeme detest Omissions must be repaired as soon asthey are perceived Others were not allowed to dream as hehad lived People who had only sores to share People with difficulty believe whatthey have seen Persuaded themselves they understoodeach other Polite when necessary, but insolentwhen he dared Pope excommunicated those who read thebook or kept it Pope not been ashamed to extol theSaint-Bartholomew Promotion was granted according tolength of service Received all the Court in her bed Reproaches rarely succeed in love Revocation of the edict of Nantes Rome must be infallible, or she isnothing Said that if they were good, they weresure to be hated Saw peace desired were they lessinclined to listen to terms Scarcely any history has been writtenat first hand Seeing him eat olives with a fork! She lose her head, and her accompliceto be broken on the wheel Spark of ambition would have destroyedall his edifice Spoil all by asking too much Spoke only about as much as three orfour women Sulpicians Supported by unanswerable reasons thatdid not convince Suspicion of a goitre, which did notill become her Teacher lost little, because he hadlittle to lose The clergy, to whom envy is notunfamiliar The porter and the soldier werearrested and tortured The shortness of each day was his onlysorrow The most horrible sights have oftenridiculous contrasts The argument of interest is the best ofall with monks The nothingness of what the world callsgreat destinies The safest place on the Continent There was no end to the outrageouscivilities of M. De Coislin Touched, but like a man who does notwish to seem so Unreasonable love of admiration, washis ruin We die as we have lived, and 'tis rareit happens otherwise Whatever course I adopt many peoplewill condemn me Whitehall, the largest and ugliestpalace in Europe Who counted others only as they stoodin relation to himself Wise and disdainful silence isdifficult to keep under reverses With him one's life was safe World; so unreasoning, and so little inaccord with itself If you wish to read the entire context of any of these quotations, select a short segment and copy it into your clipboard memory--then openthe following eBook and paste the phrase into your computer's find orsearch operation. Memoirs of Louis XIV. By Saint-Simonhttp://www. Gutenberg. Net/dirs/3/8/7/3875/3875-h/3875-h. Htm