Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

No one understands my ills, nor the terror that fills my breast, who does not know the heart of a mother.

Let them eat cake.

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?

Courage? The moment when my troubles are going to end is not the moment when my courage is going to fail me.

it is the nature of human beings, and especially of the mediocre ones, to wish to change everything. They desire it all the more because they know popularity will accrue rather to those who disturb than to those who maintain order.

I trust we shall never be reduced to the painful extremity of seeking the aid of Mirabeau.