I sighed after her, my heart was grieved at her situation, but I did not follow her.

Of all the remorse I felt this was the strongest and most lasting.

I merited the terrible chastisement with which I have since that time incessantly been overwhelmed: may this have expiated my ingratitude! Of this I appear guilty in my conduct, but my heart has been too much distressed by what I did ever to have been that of an ungrateful man.
Before my departure from Paris I had sketched out the dedication of my discourse on the 'Inequality of Mankind'.

I finished it at Chambery, and dated it from that place, thinking that, to avoid all chicane, it was better not to date it either from France or Geneva.

The moment I arrived in that city I abandoned myself to the republican enthusiasm which had brought me to it.