My friend, let us enjoy the present and give no thought to the evils of the future.
Desrues was, however, I.
Chaque homme a sa passion qui le mord au fond du coeur, comme chaque fruit son ver.
I have only two enemies: I shall not say two conquerors, because with persistence I can make them bow to my will: they are distance and time. The third and most awful is my condition as a mortal man. Only that can halt me on the path I have chosen before I have reached my appointed goal. Everything else is planned for.
Les amis d’aujourd’hui sont les ennemis de demain.
Let me struggle like a woman- my strength lies in my weakness. – Milady.
A good deed is never lost.
Fortune is a courtesan; favorable yesterday, she may turn her back tomorrow.
The reign of Mazarin is over, but that of the financiers is begun. They have the money; your majesty will not often see much of it. To live under the paw of these hungry wolves is hard for a man who reckoned upon independence.
Thucydides, Xenophon, Plutarch, Titus Livius, Tacitus, Strada, Jornandes, Dante, Montaigne, Shaksepeare, Spinoza, Machiavelli, and Bossuet. I name only the most important.
Tigers and crocodiles with two legs are more dangerous than the rest.
I have seen Russians devour, without being visibly inconvenienced, vegetable substances which would infallibly have killed a Neapolitan or an Arab.
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.