God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
But there is this terrible thing in evil thoughts, that evil minds soon grow familiar with them.
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...
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness...
Ние минаваме често пъти покрай щастието, без да го видим, без да го погледнем, или ако сме го видели и погледнали - без да го познаем
Yes; I am a supercargo; pen, ink, and paper are my tools, and without my tools I am fit for nothing.
What is offered from a generous heart should be accepted generously.
We frequently pass so near to happiness without seeing, without regarding it, or if we do see and regard it, yet without recognizing it.
We are all mortal, and the old must make way for the young. If not, why, there would be no promotion.
Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
The sum of all human wisdom will be contained in these two words: Wait and hope. ~Edmond Dantes
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality.
Starvation! exclaimed the abbe, springing from his seat. Why, the vilest animals are not suffered to die by such a death as that. The very dogs that wander houseless and homeless in the streets find s...
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dre...
It was clear that Mme Danglars was suffering from one of those nervous irritations which women are often unable to explain even to themselves.
Il mio regno è grande come il mondo, perché non sono né italiano né francese né indiano né americano né spagnolo: io sono cosmopolita. Nessun paese può dire di avermi visto nascere; Dio solo sa quale...