Why Do You Weep? Did You Think

Why Are You Weeping ? Did You Imagine That I Was Immortal ?

Heaven Deprives Me Of A Wife Who Never Caused Me Any Other Grief Than That Of Her Death.

First Feelings Are Always The Most Natural.

Every Time I Appoint Someone To A Vacant Position, I Make A Hundred Unhappy And One Ungrateful.

I Am The State. [fr., L'etat C'est Moi.]