Men who swear undying love sometimes have the worst intentions in the world.
Live, for a day will come when you will be happy and bless life
It's easy to be friends with when shares the same opinions.
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...
For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
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.
Ah, said the jailer, do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.
For there are two distinct sorts of ideas, those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
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...
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
You were able to wait,' said Dantes, sighing. 'Your long labor gave you a constant occupation, and when you didn't have your work to distract you, you had your hopes to console you.
Without words, protestations, or vows, I have laid my life in your hands. You fail me, and, I repeat once more, you are quite right in acting thus; nevertheless in losing you I lose part of my life.
When you are in doubt as to which you should serve forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle for this is everything.
What fragile and unknown threads the destinies of nations and the lives of men are suspended.
Upon my word, said Dantes, you make me shudder. Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles? Yes; and remember that two legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others.
The hungry men were seen, followed by their valets, roaming the quais and guards' quarters; gleaning from their outside friends all the dinners they could find; for, according to Aramis, in prosperity...
The heart of the best woman is pitiless toward the sorrows of a rival.
Political judgments are generally vain formalities, for the same passions which give rise to the accusation ordain the condemnation. Such is the atrocious logic of revolutions.
People in general, he said, only ask advice not to follow it; or if they do follow it, it is for the sake of having someone to blame for having given it.