Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.
It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
Il y a une femme dans toutes les affaires; aussitôt qu'on me fait un rapport, je dis: 'Cherchez la femme'.
I was delighted to see you again, and forgot for the moment that all happiness is fleeting.
I regret having helped you clarify your past and having told you what I did.''Why?''Because I've instilled in your heart a feeling that wasn't there before: vengeance.
I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —
I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
He has not recovered the blow? said he to Athos.He is struck to death.Oh! your fears exaggerate, I hope. Raoul is of a tempered nature. Around all hearts as noble as his, there is a second envelope th...
Happiness even makes the wicked good.
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.
Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers.
Death is the only serious preoccupation in life.
Come now, be a man!' he thought. 'We are used to adversity; let's not be crushed by a mere disappointment, or else I shall have suffered for nothing. The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in t...
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'...
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...
Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring.
Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.