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...
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...
Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly appar...
In those times panics were common, and few days passed without some city or other registering in its archives an event of this kind. There were nobles, who made war against each other; there was the k...
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.
Great people only thank you for doing the impossible; what’s possible, they say they can effect themselves.
Good fortune is the best of all mistresses.
Geceleyin bütün kediler gridir.
Fool that I am, said he,that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself.
Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.
And now...farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude. I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.
A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a littl...
A man is always in a hurry to be happy.
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.
The tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.
Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.
What tender threads do life and death hang
This will do, said he, and from this letter, which might have ruined me, I will make my fortune. Now to the work I have in hand. And after having assured himself that the prisoner was gone, the deputy...
So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!
Pain anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed. We will not pretend to say that Heaven always apportions to a man's capability of enduran...