If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.''Do you mean to say that if I left you---''I'd die, yes.''Then you love me?
Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities.
So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
Let us call on M. de Monte Cristo; he is admirably adapted to revive one's spirits, because he never interrogates, and in my opinion those who ask no questions are the best comforters.
When you are in doubt as to which you should serve forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle for this is everything.
The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.
Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men; pressure is needed to explode the charge. My captivity concentrated all my faculties on a single point. They had pr...
Men who swear undying love sometimes have the worst intentions in the world.
La vita è un rosario di piccole miserie, che il filosofo sgrana ridendo. Siate filosofi come me signori: mettevi a tavola e beviamo: l'avvenire non sembra mai così roseo, come quando lo si guarda attr...
It's easy to be friends with when shares the same opinions.
I'm not proud, but I'm happy, and I think happiness makes a man even blinder than pride.
I say, sir, you sir, who are hiding yourself behind that shutter—yes, you, sir, tell me what you are laughing at, and we will laugh together!
I began a poem in lines of one syllable. It's rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in their difficulty. The subject matter is gallant. I'll read you the first canto; it's four hundred ve...
Hard decisions, sacrifices doesn’t keep you warm at night, life’s too damn short, too damn long to continue without someone at your side
For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.
D'Artagnan ran home immediately, and although it was three o'clock in the morning and he had some of the worst quarters of Paris to traverse, he met with no misadventure. Everyone knows that drunkards...
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, said the jailer, do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.