Never be afraid of opportunities, always be on the lookout for adventures.
This commissary was a man of very repulsive mien, with a pointed nose, with yellow and salient cheek bones, with eyes small but keen and penetrating, and an expression of countenance resembling at one the polecat and the fox. His head, supported by a long and flexible neck, issued from his large black robe, balancing itself with a motion very much like that of the tortoise thrusting his head out of his shell.
There is a sort of consolation at the contemplation of the yawning abyss, at the bottom of which lie darkness and obscurity. Edmond.
Vengeance in bloom shone in her eyes and smiled on her lips.
If a man has tortured and killed your father, your mother, your sweetheart, in short, one of those beings who leave an eternal emptiness and a perpetually bleeding wound when they are torn from your heart, do you think society has given you sufficient reparation because the blade of the guillotine has passed between the murderer’s trapezius and his occipital bone, because the who made you undergo long years of mental and emotional suffering has undergone a few seconds of physical pain?
But he isn’t dead?’ ‘No, he isn’t, as you can very well see. Instead of striking him between the sixth and seventh left rib, as your compatriots usually do, you must have struck higher or lower; and these lawyers, you know, are not easy to kill off.
Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose.
This being understood, let us proceed with our history.
Really, monsieur, I should regard you as a coward, and a traitor too, if I did not, with greater justice, regard you as a madman.
As to the new pope, scarcely had he completed the formalities of etiquette which his exaltation imposed upon him, and paid to each man the price of his simony, when from the height of the Vatican he cast his eyes upon Europe, a vast political game of chess, which he cherished the hope of directing at the will of his own genius.
If one’s lot is cast among fools it is necessary to study folly.
I can assure you of one thing, – the more men you see die, the easier it becomes to die yourself; and in my opinion, death may be a torture, but it is not an expiation.
You have suspicions, nevertheless?” “Yes, monseigneur; but these suspicions appeared to be disagreeable to Monsieur the Commissary, and I no longer have them.
There are no creatures that walk the earth, not even those animals we have labelled cowards, which will not show courage when required to defend themselves.
I have forgiven the world for the love of you;.
Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget that until the day when God shall design to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words – ‘Wait and hope’.
Sighs united together are almost prayers; prayers coming from two hearts are almost acts of grace.
It is the privilege of youth to believe and hope, but old men see death more clearly.
My friend, she is a woman.” “No, no, you are deceived – she is a queen.
Dantes was on the way he desired to follow, and was moving towards the end he wished to achieve; his heart was in a fair way of petrifying in his bosom.