O grande ville! c’ est dans ton sein palpitant que j’ai trouve ce que je cherchais; mineur patient, j’ai remue tes entrailles pour en faire sortir le mal; maintenant, mon oeuvre est accomplie, ma mission est terminee; maintenant tu ne peux plus m’ofrir ni joies ni douleurs. Adieu, Paris,! adieu!
Before one is afraid, one sees clearly; while one is afraid, one sees double; and after being afraid, one sees dimly.
Ei kukaan ole niin ahne vapaapaikoille kuin miljoonien omistajat.
I have looked at it with all possible attention,” said Dantes, “and I only see a half-burnt paper, on which are traces of Gothic characters inscribed with a peculiar kind of ink.
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must of felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
C’est que l’on a souvent pour ennemis des gens qu’on voudrait avoir pour amis.
It is feared that it may be the smallpox, sir,” replied Porthos... “and what is serious is that it will certainly spoil his face.
We had forgotten to say that Jacopo was a Corsican.
Treville understood admirably well the warfare of that period, when, if you did not live at the enemy’s expense, you lived at the expense of your compatriots: his soldiers formed a legion of daredevils, undisciplined for anyone else but him.
All four once more together.
A love as tender as that of a lover for his mistress dwells, undoubtedly, in some paternal hearts toward a son.
How well I know you by your deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects of you!
There are two medicines for all ills: time and silence.
Hatred is blind and anger deaf: the one who pours himself a cup of vengeance is likely to drink a bitter draught.
Carry your sorrow inside you as the cloud conceals ruin and death like a deadly secret that is understood only when the storm breaks.
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
For all evils there are two remedies – time and silence.
Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
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.
Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.