I proposed it to Philidor, offering him at the same time a part of the profits.

He came twice, and did something to the middle parts in the act of Ovid; but he could not confine himself to an assiduous application by the allurement of advantages which were distant and uncertain.

He did not come a third time, and I finished the work myself.
My opera completed, the next thing was to make something of it: this was by much the more difficult task of the two.

A man living in solitude in Paris will never succeed in anything.

I was on the point of making my way by means of M.de la Popliniere, to whom Gauffecourt, at my return to Geneva had introduced me.