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 am terrified of being bored.

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

I have come, Sire, to complain of one of your subjects who has been so audacious as to kick me in the belly.

Letting everyone down would be my greatest unhappiness.

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.