Complete Works of Helvétius

others. If you people chase me away, I will return, tamen usque recurret yet it will always return. Regarding what one might reproach, it is like the verses of Crébillon: all that was done fifteen or twenty years prior.

I am a sincere admirer of Catilina A tragedy by Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon., and I do not know how this play inspires respect in me. The reading has so delighted me that I reached the fifth act without finding a single fault, or at least without feeling one. I believe well that there are many, since the public finds many in it; and, furthermore, I do not have great knowledge of theatrical matters; moreover, there are hearts that are made for certain dramatic genres, mine in particular is made for that of Crébillon; and as in my youth I became mad about Rhadamiste Another tragedy by Crébillon., I will go to the Petites-Maisons A Parisian asylum for the mentally ill