MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV.

Duc de Saint-Simon

Louis XIV. In Conferance With Madame Maintenon

ENLARGE

Effect Of The Edict Of Nantes

Search Of The Spanish Ambassador

A cardinal may be poisoned, stabbed,got rid of altogetherA good friend when a friend at all,which was rareA King's son, a King's father, andnever a KingA lingering fear lest the sick manshould recoverA king is made for his subjects, andnot the subjects for himAdmit our ignorance, and not to givefictions and inventionsAptitude did not come up to my desireArranged his affairs that he diedwithout moneyArtagnan, captain of the greymusketeersBelieved that to undertake and succeedwere only the same thingsBut with a crawling baseness equal toher previous audacityCapacity was small, and yet he believedhe knew everythingCompelled to pay, who would havepreferred giving voluntarilyConjugal impatience of the Duc deBourgogneCountries of the Inquisition, wherescience is a crimeDanger of inducing hypocrisy by placingdevotion too highDeath came to laugh at him for thesweating labour he had takenDepopulated a quarter of the realmDesmarets no longer knew of what woodto make a crutchEnriched one at the expense of theotherExceeded all that was promised of her,and all that I had hopedFew would be enriched at the expense ofthe manyFor penance: "we must make our servantsfast"For want of better support I sustainedmyself with courageFound it easier to fly into a rage thanto replyFrom bad to worse was easyHe had pleased (the King) by his drugsHe limped audaciouslyHe was often firm in promisesHe was so good that I sometimesreproached him for itHe was born bored; he was so accustomedto live out of himselfHe liked nobody to be in any waysuperior to himHe was scarcely taught how to read orwriteHe was accused of putting on animperceptible touch of rougeHeight to which her insignificance hadrisenHis death, so happy for him and so sadfor his friendsHis habits were publicly known to bethose of the GreeksHis great piety contributed to weakenhis mindI abhorred to gain at the expense ofothersIgnorance and superstition the first ofvirtuesImagining themselves everywhere inmarvellous danger of captureIn order to say something cutting toyou, says it to himselfIndiscre                        
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