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.

I wasn’t raised, I was built.

Farewell, my children, forever. I go to your Father.

Tribulation first makes one realize what one is.

If the people have no bread, let them eat cake.

I had friends. The idea of being forever separated from them and from all their troubles is one of the greatest sorrows that I suffer in dying. Let them at least know that to my latest moment I thought of them.