Images From Saint Simons Louis Xiv

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Louis De Rouvroy Saint Simon
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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 Believe
...d 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!

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