Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

First feelings are always the most natural.

Why are you weeping ? Did you imagine that I was immortal ?

I see no point in reading.

Heaven deprives me of a wife who never caused me any other grief than that of her death.

I could sooner reconcile all Europe than two women.