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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