What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do you imagine that I triumph in Italy in order to aggrandise the pack of lawyers who form the Directory, and men like Carnot and Barras? What an idea!
"Memoirs of Count Miot de Melito (1788-1815)" translated by Frances Cashel Hoey and John Lillie, Vol. II, (p. 94), 1881.
