The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
Ние минаваме често пъти покрай щастието, без да го видим, без да го погледнем, или ако сме го видели и погледнали - без да го познаем
Let us call on M. de Monte Cristo; he is admirably adapted to revive one's spirits, because he never interrogates, and in my opinion those who ask no questions are the best comforters.
What is offered from a generous heart should be accepted generously.
We frequently pass so near to happiness without seeing, without regarding it, or if we do see and regard it, yet without recognizing it.
We are all mortal, and the old must make way for the young. If not, why, there would be no promotion.
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness...
There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope. ~Edmond Dantes
The heart of the best woman is pitiless toward the sorrows of a rival.
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
My son, be worthy of your noble name, worthily borne by your ancestors for over five hundred years. Remember it’s by courage, and courage alone, that a nobleman makes his way nowadays. Don’t be afraid...
He then said something in Arabic to Ali, who made a sign of obedience and withdrew, but not to any distance. As to Franz a strange transformation had taken place in him. All the bodily fatigue of the...
Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
But there is this terrible thing in evil thoughts, that evil minds soon grow familiar with them.
But the kings of modern times, restrained by the limits of mere probability, have neither courage nor desire. They fear the eat that hears their orders, and the eye that scrutinizes their actions.
For there are two distinct sorts of ideas, those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
Il n'y a ni bonheur ne malheur en ce monde, il y a la comparaison d'un etat a un autre, voila tout.
Dantes,rejected by all the world,frequently experienced a desire for solitude, and what solitude is at the same time more complete,more poetical , than that of a bark floating isolated on the sea duri...
Yes; I am a supercargo; pen, ink, and paper are my tools, and without my tools I am fit for nothing.