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MEMOIRS OF THE COURT OF ST. CLOUD

A Gentleman at Paris

At Cardinal Caprara's

[ENLARGE]

Napoleon Bonaparte 1810 — Painting by Leroux

Cardinal Fesch

Pauline Bonaparte

A stranger to remorse and repentance,
as well as to honour
Accused of fanaticism, because she
refused to cohabit with him
All his creditors, denounced and
executed
All priests are to be proscribed as
criminals
As everywhere else, supported injustice
by violence
As confident and obstinate as ignorant
Bestowing on the Almighty the passions
of mortals
Bonaparte and his wife go now every
morning to hear Mass
Bonaparte dreads more the liberty of
the Press than all other
Bourrienne
Bow to their charlatanism as if it was
sublimity
Cannot be expressed, and if expressed,
would not be believed
Chevalier of the Guillotine: Toureaux
Complacency which may be felt, but
ought never to be published
Country where power forces the law to
lie dormant
Distinguished for their piety or
rewarded for their flattery
Easy to give places to men to whom
Nature has refused parts
Encounter with dignity and self-command
unbecoming provocations
Error to admit any neutrality at all
Expeditious justice, as it is called
here
Extravagances of a head filled with
paradoxes
Feeling, however, the want of
consolation in their misfortunes
Forced military men to kneel before
priests
French Revolution was fostered by
robbery and murder
Future effects dreaded from its past
enormities
General who is too fond of his life
ought never to enter a camp
Generals of Cabinets are often
indifferent captains in the field
God is only the invention of fear
Gold, changes black to white, guilt to
innocence
Hail their sophistry and imposture as
inspiration
He was too honest to judge soundly and
to act rightly
Her present Serene Idiot, as she styles
the Prince Borghese
Hero of great ambition and small
capacity: La Fayette
How many reputations are gained by an
impudent assurance
How much people talk about what they do
not comprehend
If Bonaparte is fond of flattery__pays
for it like a real Emperor
Indifference about futurity
Indifference of the French people to
all religion
Invention of new tortures and improved
racks
Irresolution and weakness in a
commander operate the same
Its pretensions rose in proportion to
the condescensions
Jealous of his wife as a lover of his
mistress
Justice is invoked in vain when the
criminal is powerful
Labour as much as possible in the dark
Love of life increase in proportion as
its real value diminishes
Marble lives longer than man
May change his habitations six times in
the month—yet be home
Men and women, old men and children are
no more
Military diplomacy
Misfortunes and proscription would not
only inspire courage
More vain than ambitious
My maid always sleeps with me when my
husband is absent
My means were the boundaries of my
wants
Napoleon invasion of States of the
American Commonwealth
Nature has destined him to obey, and
not to govern
Not suspected of any vices, but all his
virtues are negative
Not only portable guillotines, but
portable Jacobin clubs
Nothing was decided, though nothing was
refused
Now that she is old (as is generally
the case), turned devotee
One of the negative accomplices of the
criminal
Opinion almost constitutes half the
strength of armies
Prelate on whom Bonaparte intends to
confer the Roman tiara
Prepared to become your victim, but not
your accomplice
Presumptuous charlatan
Pretensions or passions of upstart
vanity
Pride of an insupportable and
outrageous ambition
Procure him after a useless life, a
glorious death
Promises of impostors or fools to
delude the ignorant
Prudence without weakness, and with
firmness without obstinacy
Saints supplied her with a finger, a
toe, or some other parts
Salaries as the men, under the name of
washerwomen
Satisfying himself with keeping three
mistresses only
Should our system of cringing continue
progressively
Sold cats' meat and tripe in the
streets of Rome
Step is but short from superstition to
infidelity
Sufferings of individuals, he said, are
nothing
Suspicion and tyranny are inseparable
companions
Suspicion is evidence
They will create some quarrel to
destroy you
They ought to be just before they are
generous
"This is the age of upstarts," said
Talleyrand
Thought at least extraordinary, even by
our friends
Thought himself eloquent when only
insolent or impertinent
Two hundred and twenty thousand
prostitute licenses
Under the notion of being frank, are
rude
United States will be exposed to
Napoleon's outrages
Usurped the easy direction of ignorance
Vices or virtues of all civilized
nations are relatively the same
Want is the parent of industry
We are tired of everything, even of our
existence
Were my generals as great fools as some
of my Ministers
Which crime in power has interest to
render impenetrable
Who complains is shot as a conspirator
With us, unfortunately, suspicion is
the same as conviction
Would cease to rule the day he became
just

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