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"Weep," said Athos, "weep, heart full of love, youth, and life! Alas, would I could weep like you!"
The Three Musketeers (1844)
Until the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, Wait and hope.
The Count of Monte Cristo (1845)
All for one, one for all, that is our motto.
The Three Musketeers (1844)
You are young, and your bitter recollections have time to change themselves into sweet remembrances."
The Three Musketeers (1844)
There is a woman in every case; as soon as they bring me a report, I say, 'Look for the woman'.
Les Mohicans de Paris (The Mohicans of Paris) (1864)
All for one, one for all, that is our device, is it not?
All generalizations are dangerous, even this one.
Sleeping on a plank has one advantage — it encourages early rising.
Oh! the good times when we were so unhappy.
Rien ne réussit comme le succès.
I am the insulted one, therefore I have the choice of weapons. I choose the sword.
Eh! sire, that is the fate of truth; she is a stern companion; she bristles all over with steel; she wounds those whom she attacks, and sometimes him who speaks her.
Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus (The Vicomte de Bragelonne) (1847)
My friend, the pleasures to which we are not accustomed oppress us more than the griefs with which we are familiar.
Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix ans plus (The Vicomte de Bragelonne) (1847)
* My father was a mulatto, my grandfather was a Negro, and my great-grandfather a monkey. You see, Sir, my family starts where yours ends.
Learn ever to separate the king and the principle of royalty. The king is but man; royalty is the spirit of God. When you are in doubt as to which you should serve, forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle, for this is everything.
Vingt ans après (Twenty Years After) (1845)
"Eh, gentlemen, let us reckon upon accidents! Life is a chaplet of little miseries which the philosopher counts with a smile. Be philosophers, as I am, gentlemen; sit down at the table and let us drink. Nothing makes the future look so bright as surveying it through a glass of chambertin."
The Three Musketeers (1844)
The chains of wedlock are so heavy that it takes two to carry them; sometimes three.
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