Man does not steal, he conquers
Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
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...
Rien n'est plus courageux qu'un cœur patient.
Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does...
Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself…
And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good - now the god of ven...
Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.
Приятелите, които сме загубили не почиват в земята, те са погребани в сърцата ни, по божия воля, за да ни придружават навред. Аз имам двама близки, които ме придружават така: единият е този, комуто дъ...
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of his readers with a bald statement of the facts.
That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
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 hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, r...
I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.
Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.
It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
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.