Hatred is blind, anger is foolhardy, and he who pours out vengeance risks having to drink a bitter draft
Hatred is blind, anger is foolhardy, and he who pours out vengeance risks having to drink a bitter draft
Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.
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; no feelings, only interests. In politics, you don't kill a man, you remove an obstacle, that's all.
Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.
Monsieur Man-in-a-hurry, you can find me without running-ME, you understand?
He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
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.
The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
You who are in power have only the means that money produces - we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
My son, be worthy of your noble name, worthily borne by your ancestors for over five hundred years. Remember it's by courage, and courage alone, that a nobleman makes his way nowadays. Don't be afraid of opportunities, and seek out adventures. My son, all I have to give you is fifteen ecus, my horse, and the advice you've just heard. Make the most of these gifts, and have a long, happy life.
How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.
My son, philosophy as I understand it, is reducible to no rules by which it can be learned; it is the amalgamation of all the sciences, the golden cloud which bears the soul to heaven.
There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will not doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive. Do you intend to fight back at fate, Valentine? That's what I came here to ask you.
Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.
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 dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.
I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.
No, happily that unjust prejudice is forgotten which made the son responsible for the father's actions. Review your life, Albert ...
There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime.
Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
The merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.
There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.
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, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.
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.
Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.
And now gentlemen, all for one, one for all - that is our motto, is it not?
Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.
To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.
As and general rule,'he had once said,'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.'-Athos
We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.
I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.
One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.
We are always in a hurry to be happy, M. Danglars; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.
Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.
Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another,
I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange -
Order is the key to all problems.
We frequently pass so near to happiness without seeing, without regarding it, or if we do see and regard it, yet without recognizing it.
Capricious and unfaithful, the king wished to be called Louis the Just and Louis the Chaste. Posterity will find a difficulty in understanding this character, which history explains only by facts and never by reason.
You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
Ah, what he is; that is quite another thing. I have seen so many remarkable things in him, that if you would have me really say what I think, I shall reply that I really do look upon him as one of Byron's heroes, whom misery has marked with a fatal brand; some Manfred, some Lara, some Werner, one of those wrecks, as it were, of some ancient family, who, disinherited of their patrimony, have achieved one by the force of their adventurous genius, which has placed them above the laws of society.
In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.
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 not protect me -- indeed, I might add, which generally takes no heed of me except to do me harm -- and, since I hold them low in my esteem and remain neutral towards them, I believe that society and my neighbor are in my debt.
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