He has never forgiven me for"-- omitting to cite him, &c .-- At Paris he had got the Academy of Sciences into trouble, and himself into general dislike (DETESTER); then came this Berlin offer.

"Old Fleuri, when Maupertuis called to take leave, repeated that verse of Virgil, NEC TIBI REGNANDI VENIAT TAM DIRA CUPIDO.

Fleuri might have whispered as much to himself: but he was a mild sovereign lord, and reigned in a gentle polite manner.

I swear to you, Maupertuis does not, in his shop [the Academy here]--where, God be thanked, I never go.
"He has printed a little Pamphlet on Happiness (SUR LE BONHEUR); it is very dry and miserable.

Reminds you of Advertisements for things lost,--so poor a chance of finding them again.