Of the events and facts that rousseau relates in the excerpt you read from confessions, the one he seems most to regret is his theft of sweet things to eat the treatment of his older brother the prank he played on madame clot his attempt to imitate the roman scoevola

Which statement best summarizes this excerpt from leo tolstoy's the death of ivan ilyich? and in imagination he began to recall the best moments of his pleasant life. but strange to say none of those best moments of his pleasant life now seemed at all what they had then seemed—none of them except the first recollections of childhood. there, in childhood, there had been something really pleasant with which it would be possible to live if it could return. but the child who had experienced that happiness existed no longer, it was like a reminiscence of somebody else.