Observe you, I have still honor remaining; I will preserve that, at the price of my blood.
"If your people want Peace, let them propose nothing to me which contradicts the delicacy of my sentiments.

I am in the convulsions of military operations; I do as the gamblers who are in ill-luck, and obstinately set themselves against Fortune.

I have forced her to return to me, more than once, like a fickle mistress, when she had run away.

My opponents are such foolish people, in the end I bid fair to catch some advantage over them: but, happen whatsoever his Sacred Majesty Chance may please, I don't disturb myself about it.

Up to this point, I have a clear conscience in regard to the misfortunes that have come to me.
As to you, the Battle of Minden, that of Cadiz" (Boscawen VERSUS De la Clue; Toulon Fleet running out, and caught by the English, as we saw), these things perhaps, "and the loss of Canada, are arguments capable of restoring reason to the French, who had got confused by the Austrian hellebore.
"This is my way of thinking.