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 merit of all things lies in their difficulty.
I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.
Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.
Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
You scholars, you’re in communication with the devil.
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.
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.
When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
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.
Be kind, aim for my heart.
No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat. – The Count of Monte Cristo.
It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.
True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.
So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.
All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.