#cquotes

"My relatives, friends, and all men of liberal and moderate ideas share in my misfortunes: they believe me to be in anguish. Let them rest assured; I can confirm to them that great truth of universal morality, that with a pure heart one is never miserable."

On Sunday, 15 May 1753, after vespers, at four o'clock, my wife gave birth to a son who was baptised the same day by M. Boussey, vicar priest, in Nolay; his godfather was M. Nicolas Clément, son of Marie Carnot, my sister, and his godmother was demoiselle Marguerite Pothier, daughter of M. Pothier, living in Nolay, my wife's uncle. He is called Lazare-Nicolas-Marguerite. This child was born in a time of calamity because of the rapid and frequent deaths which afflict this country, as well as all those of the province. May God show him his wrath throughout his life, so that he may behave with awe and deserve his mercy!

We see this toward the end of many people’s lives, when everything in their wasted bodies fights to stay alive, for a few more kisses or bites of ice cream, one more hour with you. Life is still flowing through them: life is them. […] That’s magic, or the human spirit, or hope — whatever you want to call it — to captivate, to share contented time.

In a word, there are many thorns, but the roses are there too.

I don't ask you to love me always like this but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight.

After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so on — have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear — what remains? Nature remains; to bring out from their torpid recesses, the affinities of a man or woman with the open air, the trees, fields, the changes of seasons — the sun by day and the stars of heaven by night.