You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
Weakened minds see everything through a black veil; the soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of your future appears stormy and unpromising.
To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like all persons of real genius, her ladyship well knew what...
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is n...
Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles? Yes; and remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others. Never
I possessed nearly five thousand volumes in my library at Rome; but after reading them over many times, I found out that with a hundred and fifty well-chosen books a man possesses a complete analysis...
I do not often laugh, sir, answered the unknown. As you may yourself discover by the expression of my continence. But yet I mean to preserve the right of laughing when I please.
His fair landlady was in despair. She would most willingly have made M. d'Artagnan her husband--such a handsome man, and such a fierce mustache!
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
Haste is a poor counselor
Gli uomini veramente generosi sono sempre pronti a divenire compassionevoli allorché la disgrazia del nemico supera i limiti del loro odio.
Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the...
Do you think that, if I did, I would lead you to the answer inch by inch, like a dramatist or a novelist?
Dacă e vorba de spectacol, îmi place mai mult să privesc această îngrămădire de copaci negri, printre care scânteie ici-colo câte-o luminiță care trece ca un ochi înroșit, când deschis, când închis.
Carry your sorrow inside you as the cloud conceals ruin and death like a deadly secret that is understood only when the storm breaks.
Athos liked every one to exercise his own free-will. He never gave his advice before it was demanded and even then it must be demanded twice. In general, people only ask for advice, he said that they...
As for herself, she returned to her seat with a smile of savage scorn upon her lips, and she blasphemously repeated the fearful name of that God by whom she had just sworn, without ever having learned...
Armed to the teeth? He had not even a knitting-needle.
All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope
Remember that what has once been done may be done again.