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Title: Quotes and Images From Memoirs of Louis XIV.
Author: Duke of Saint-Simon
Edited and Arranged by David Widger
Release Date: September 10, 2004 [EBook #7565]
Language: English
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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, and
never a King
A lingering fear lest the sick man
should recover
A king is made for his subjects, and
not the subjects for him
Admit our ignorance, and not to give
fictions and inventions
Aptitude did not come up to my desire
Arranged his affairs that he died
without money
Artagnan, captain of the grey
musketeers
Believed that to undertake and succeed
were only the same things
But with a crawling baseness equal to
her previous audacity
Capacity was small, and yet he believed
he knew everything
Compelled to pay, who would have
preferred giving voluntarily
Conjugal impatience of the Duc de
Bourgogne
Countries of the Inquisition, where
science is a crime
Danger of inducing hypocrisy by placing
devotion too high
Death came to laugh at him for the
sweating labour he had taken
Depopulated a quarter of the realm
Desmarets no longer knew of what wood
to make a crutch
Enriched one at the expense of the
other
Exceeded all that was promised of her,
and all that I had hoped
Few would be enriched at the expense of
the many
For penance: "we must make our servants
fast"
For want of better support I sustained
myself with courage
Found it easier to fly into a rage than
to 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 sometimes
reproached him for it
He was born bored; he was so accustomed
to liv
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