It requires violent men in order to impute to them the excesses of the people and the disorders of the kingdom: we must deceive its perfidious hopes, and give to it firm and sagacious patriots.

We think of you." XI.
Roland, whose ambition had soured in obscurity, had smiled at the power which came to avenge his old age.

Brissot, himself, had gone to Madame Roland on the 21st of the same month, and repeating the same words, had requested from her the formal consent of her husband.

Madame Roland was ambitious, not of power but of fame.

Fame lightens up the higher places only, and she ardently desired to see her husband elevated to this eminence.