Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself…

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

…remember that what has once been done may be done again.

Sí, pero, ,adónde vamos?-Ya os lo he dicho. Donde el aire es puro, donde el ruido adormece, donde por orgulloso que el hombre sea se siente humillado y pequeño; amo estas impresiones, yo, a quien...

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to...

Uncertainty is worse than all

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry.

What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?””Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed...

You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess.

The truth is,’ replied Dantes, ‘that I am too happy for noisy mirth; …joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.

Let me struggle like a woman- my strength lies in my weakness. – Milady

Dantes had entered the Chateau d’If with the round, open, smiling face of a young and happy man, with whom the earlypaths of life have been smooth. and who anticipates a future corresponding with his...

All for one and one for all.

In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.

Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.