Stout, healthy girl of nineteen had no other sins to confess Subject to frequent fits of abstraction That what he called love was mere debauchery The old woman (Madame Maintenon) Throw his priest into the Necker To tell the truth, I was never very fond of having children To die is the least event of my life (Maintenon) You never look in a mirror when you pass it You are a King; you weep, and yet I go MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY THE DUC de SAINT-SIMON MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V1 [CM#23][cm23b10.txt]3860 Aptitude did not come up to my desire Believed that to undertake and succeed were only the same things Exceeded all that was promised of her, and all that I had hoped He had pleased (the King) by his drugs King was being wheeled in his easy chair in the gardens Less easily forget the injuries we inflict than those received Make religion a little more palpable Manifesto of a man who disgorges his bile Mightily tired of masters and books More facility I have as King to gratify myself My wife went to bed, and received a crowd of visitors People who had only sores to share Persuaded themselves they understood each other Received all the Court in her bed Saw peace desired were they less inclined to listen to terms Spark of ambition would have destroyed all his edifice Sulpicians The safest place on the Continent Wise and disdainful silence is difficult to keep under reverses With him one's life was safe MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V2 [CM#24][cm24b10.txt]3861 But with a crawling baseness equal to her previous audacity He limped audaciously Height to which her insignificance had risen His death, so happy for him and so sad for his friends His habits were publicly known to be those of the Greeks In order to say something cutting to you, says it to himself Madame de Maintenon in returning young and poor from America No means, therefore, of being wise among so many fools Omissions must be repaired as soon as they are perceived Pope excommunicated those who read the book or kept it She lose her head, and her accomplice to be broken on the wheel The clergy, to whom envy is not unfamiliar The porter and the soldier were arrested and tortured Whitehall, the largest and ugliest palace in Europe World; so unreasoning, and so little in accord with itself MEMOIRS OF LOUIS XIV, BY SAINT-SIMON, V3 [CM#25][cm25b10.txt]3862 A King's son, a King's father, and never a King Capacity was small, and yet he believed he knew everything He was accused of putting on an imperceptible touch of rouge Monseigneur, who had been out wolf-hunting Never been able to bend her to a more human way of life Spoke only about as much as three or four women Supported by unanswerable reasons that did not convince The most horrible sights have often ridiculous contrasts The nothingness of what the world calls great destinies Whatever course I adopt many people will condemn me