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.
The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
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.
On the 24th of February, 1810, the look-out at Notre-Dame de la Garde signalled the three-master, the Pharaon from Smyrna, Trieste, and Naples.
Never fear quarrels, but seek adventures. I have taught you how to handle a sword; you have thews of iron, a wrist of steel. Fight on all occasions. Fight the more for duels being forbidden, since con...
La vita è un rosario di piccole miserie, che il filosofo sgrana ridendo. Siate filosofi come me signori: mettevi a tavola e beviamo: l'avvenire non sembra mai così roseo, come quando lo si guarda attr...
I have always heard it said that that is the rarest service, but the easiest to render. The remark struck me; I like to cite remarks that strike me.
Armed to the teeth? He had not even a knitting-needle.
Ah, said the jailer, do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.
A meno che non muoia, sarò sempre ciò che sono.
But my friends call me Edmund Dantes.
Apprendre n'est pas savoir; il y a les sachants et les savants: c'est la memoire qui fait les uns, c'est la philosophie qui fait les autres.
Peut-être, dit Athos; mais, en tout cas, écoutez bien ceci: assassinez ou faites assassiner le duc de Buckingham, peut m'importe! je ne le connais pas, d'ailleurs c'est un Anglais; mais ne touchez pas...
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.
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.
Tous pour un, un pour tous
To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
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...