Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.

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

I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long.

Marie Antoinette. Her last words were,"Pardon me sir. I did not mean to do it,"to a man whose foot she stepped on before she was executed by the guillotine

No, do not love me, it is better to give me death!

one's enjoyment is doubled when one can share it with a friend - and where can one find a more affectionate, a more intimate friend than in one's own family?

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