In this world, all – men, women, and kings – must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God.
There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.
Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.
D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning.
What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.
For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.
Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
Misfortune does not help us to believe.
Order is the key to all problems.
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.
Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.
Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That’s when you shout, “Do your worst, for I will do mine!” and you will be remembered forever.
He’s right: They have to put madmen with madmen.
It is only the dead who do not return.
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.
Haste is a poor counselor.