Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
At Rome thing can or cannot be done when you are told anything cannot be done, there is an end of it.""It is much more convenient at Paris; when anything cannot be done you pay double and it is done d...
In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of...
So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of tho...
Good fortune is the best of all mistresses.
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.
It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.
I, who have also been betrayed, assassinated and cast into a tomb, I have emerged from that tomb by the grace of God and I owe it to God to take my revenge. He has sent me for that purpose. Here I am.
He who has a partner has a master.
Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself…
Forward! Still forward! said he. When it shall be time, God will tell me, as he has told the others.
A man is bound to make for himself in this world, that fortune which heaven had refused him at his birth.
A man is always in a hurry to be happy.