Politics is much too serious to be taken too seriously equally there are many aspects of it so laughable as to be lamentable.
To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
It is lamentable that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.
I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.