principally felt. . . . Must men then be lucky in the means by
which they are led on to happiness? . . . . My rights (to
property) are renewed along with my transpiration, circulate in my
blood, are written on my nerves, on my heart. . . . Proclaim to
the rich -your wealth is your misfortune, withdrawn within the
latitude of your senses. . . . Let the enemies of nature at thy
voice keep silence and swallow their rabid serpents' tongues. . . .
The wretched shun the society of men, the tapestry of gayety turns to
mourning. . . . Such, gentlemen, are the Sentiments which, in
animal relations, mankind should have taught it for its welfare."

[20] Yung, I., 252 (Letter to Buttafuoco). "Dripping with the blood
of his brethren, sullied by every species of crime, he presents
himself with confidence under his vest of a general, the sole reward
of his criminalities." - I., 192 (Letter to the Corsican Intendant,
April 2, 1879). "Cultivation is what ruins us" - See various
manuscript letters, copied by Yung, for innumerable and gross mistakes
in French. - Miot de Melito, I., 84 (July, 1796). "He spoke curtly
and, at this time, very incorrectly." - Madame de Rémusat, I., 104.
"Whatever language he spoke it never seemed familiar to him; he
appeared to force himself in expressing his ideas."- Notes par le
Comte Chaptal (unpublished), councillor of state and afterwards
minister of the interior under the Consulate: "At this time, Bonaparte
did not blush at the slight knowledge of administrative details which
he possessed; he asked a good many questions and demanded definitions
and the meaning of the commonest words in use. As it very often
happened with him not to clearly comprehend words which he heard for
the first time, he always repeated these afterwards as he understood
them; for example, he constantly used section for session, armistice
for amnesty, fulminating point for culminating point, rentes voyagères