Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.
Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.
But excessive grief is like a storm at sea, where the frail bark is tossed from the depths to the top of the wave.
Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another,
Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
The greater number of a man's errors come before him disguised under the specious form of necessity; then, after error has been committed in a moment of excitement, of delirium, or of fear, we see tha...
You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess.
To be loved by a pure young girl, to be the first to reveal to her the strange mystery of love, is indeed a great happiness, but it is the simplest thing in the world. To take captive a heart which ha...
The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in politics. You know as well as I do, my dear boy, that in politics there are no people, only ideas; n...
Pero soy de los que creen que en las cosas pequeñas está todo. El niño es pequeño, y contiene al hombre; el cerebro es estrecho, y alberga el pensamiento; el ojo es solo un punto, y abarca leguas.
Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.
It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!
In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, ‘Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?’ I replied, ‘Listen, I wish to be Pro...
Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D'Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it.
Follow me. He who lives will see. - D'Artagnan
Celui-la seul qui a eprouve l'extreme infortune est apte a ressentir l'extreme felicite. Il faut avoir voulu mourir pour savoir combien el est bon de vivre.
But that's not the name of a man, it's the name of a mountain! (...)It is my name, Athos said calmly.But you said your name was d'Artagnan.I?Yes, you.That is to say, someone said to me: 'You are M. d'...
Besides, the storm which rages in her breast was increasing in its violence, and she would have burst her prison walls if her body could have enjoyed, for a single instant, the same proportions as her...
Ah, no difficulties can ever daunt me,' replied d'Artagnan: 'my only fear is, of impossibilities.''Nothing is impossible,' said the lady, 'to the one who truly loves.''Nothing, madame?''Nothing' she r...