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