You must needs have wished to die, to know how good it is to live.
The struggle had been going on same time, when suddenly one of the doors violently pushed open, and a young officer in the uniform of a cavalry captain jumped down, shutting the door as he did so though not too quickly for the nearest spectators to perceive a woman sitting at the back of the carriage. She was wrapped in cloak and veil, and judging by the precautions she, had taken to hide her face from every eye, she must have had her reasons for avoiding recognition.
You know very well that it will never be I who will leave you. It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
Death is perhaps an ordeal, but it is not an expiation.
What my family seeks in this marriage is prestige; what I seek is happiness.
God has preserved us hitherto, God will preserve us still.
I always said that this cadet from Gascony was a well of wisdom,” murmured Athos;.
Nature subdued must yield in the combat, the dream must succeed to reality, and then the dream reigns supreme, then the dream becomes life, and life becomes the dream. But.
But there are shutters?’ ‘Yes, there are, but they are never used. He’s eccentric, this Count of Monte Cristo, and likes to see the sky, even at night.
The tree does not forsake the flower, it is the flower that forsakes the tree.
Beneath passion and beyond pleasure, there is always a trace of remorse.
I have in my heart three feelings with which one can never be bored: sadness, love and gratitude.
Commend me to the cardinal,′ said Milady. ‘Commend me to Satan,’ replied Rochefort.
Ahora los reyes se hacen muy a menudo vulgares.
You speak like the Apocalypse, and you are as true as the Gospel. There.
Misfortune is needed to plumb certain mysterious depths in the understanding of men.
Well, so much the better for him,’ said the inspector. ‘When he is altogether mad, he will suffer less.’ As you can see, this inspector was a man of the utmost humanity and altogether worthy of the philanthropic office with which he had been entrusted.
Mais dans ce monde il faut bien risquer quelque chose.
But why be discouraged? It would be asking too much of Providence if you were to expect to succeed at the first attempt.
Vi sono esistenze predestinate in cui un primo sbaglio sconvolge l’intero avvenire.