Was it ever seen before, that three great Princes laid plot in concert to destroy a Fourth, who had done nothing against them?
I have not had the least quarrel either with France or with Russia, still less with Sweden.

If, in common life, three citizens took it into their heads to fall upon their neighbor, and burn his house about him, they very certainly, by sentence of tribunal, would be broken on the wheel.

What! and will Sovereigns, who maintain these tribunals and these laws in their States, give such example to their subjects ?...

Happy, my dear Sister, is the obscure man, whose good sense from youth upwards, has renounced all sorts of glory; who, in his safe low place, has none to envy him, and whose fortune does not excite the cupidity of scoundrels! "But these reflections are vain.

We have to be what our birth, which decides, has made us in entering upon this world.