Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

I came to Paris with four écus in my pocket, and I’d have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of conscious innocence which is the sequence to hope; then he began to doubt his own innocence, which justified in some measure the governor's belief in his mental alienation; and then, relaxing his sentiment of pride, he addressed his supplications, not to God, but to man. God is always the last resource. Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!