A sect cannot be destroyed by cannon-balls
A stranger to remorse and repentance, as well as to honour
A sad sort of consolation that is drawn from reprisals
Accused of fanaticism, because she refused to cohabit with him
Act with our allies as if they were afterwards to be our enemies
Age in which one breathes well only after resting
All priests are to be proscribed as criminals
All his creditors, denounced and executed
All orders given by his Majesty were short, precise
Always proposing what he knew could not be honourably acceded to
As everywhere else, supported injustice by violence
As confident and obstinate as ignorant
As was his habit, criticised more than he praised
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
Borrowing, which uses up the resources of the future
Bourrienne
Bow to their charlatanism as if it was sublimity
Cannot be expressed, and if expressed, would not be believed
Cause of war between the United States and England
Chevalier of the Guillotine: Toureaux
Complacency which may be felt, but ought never to be published
Conquest can only be regarded as the genius of destruction
Country where power forces the law to lie dormant
Death is only asleep without dreams
Demand everything, that you may obtain nothing
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
Every one cannot be an atheist who pleases
Every time we go to war with them we teach them how to beat us
Excessive desire to oblige
Expeditious justice, as it is called here
Extravagances of a head filled with paradoxes
Fear of being suspected of cowardice was beneath them
Feeling, however, the want of consolation in their misfortunes
For a retreating enemy it is necessary to make a bridge of gold
Forced military men to kneel before priests
Frederick the Great: "No man is a hero to his valet"
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
Go to England The English like wrangling politicians
God is only the invention of fear
God in his mercy has chosen Napoleon to be his representative on earth
Gold, changes black to white, guilt to innocence
Grew more angry as his anger was less regarded
Hail their sophistry and imposture as inspiration
Hair, arranged with charming negligence
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
His Majesty did not converse: he spoke.
How many reputations are gained by an impudent assurance
How much people talk about what they do not comprehend
I do not live--I merely exist
I have made sovereigns, but have not wished to be one myself
If Bonaparte is fond of flattery__pays for it like a real Emperor
Indifference of the French people to all religion
Indifference about futurity
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
Let women mind their knitting
Like all great amateurs was hard to please
Little gifts preserve friendship
Living ever in the future
Love of life increase in proportion as its real value diminishes
Make a bridge of gold, or oppose a wall of brass
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
Most charming mistresses and the worst wives
My means were the boundaries of my wants
My maid always sleeps with me when my husband is absent
Napoleon invasion of States of the American Commonwealth
Nature has destined him to obey, and not to govern
Necessity is ever ready with inventions
No man is, a hero to his valet
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
Paper money, which is the greatest enemy of social order
Power of thus isolating one's self completely from all the world
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
Rise and decline of stocks was with him the real thermometer
Rubbings with eau de Cologne, his favorite remedy
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
Self-appointed connoisseurs
She feared to be distracted from her grief
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
Strike their imaginations by absurdities than by rational ideas
Submit to events, that he might appear to command them
Sufferings of individuals, he said, are nothing
Suspicion is evidence
Suspicion and tyranny are inseparable companions
Tendency to sell the skin of the bear before killing him
The more I concede the more they demand
The wish and the reality were to him one and the same thing
The friendship of a great man is a gift from the gods
The pear was ripe; but who was to gather it?
There are saber strokes enough for every one
They ought to be just before they are generous
They will create some quarrel to destroy you
This is the age of upstarts," said Talleyrand
Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others
Thought at least extraordinary, even by our friends
Thought himself eloquent when only insolent or impertinent
Treaties of peace no less disastrous than the wars
Trying to alleviate her sorrow by sharing it
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
When a man has so much money he cannot have got it honestly
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
Yield to illusion when the truth was not satisfactory
You have given me your long price, now give me your short one.
You were made to give lessons, not to take them.