As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

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. We must of felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.

There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.

Well, father, in the shipwreck of life, for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes, I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and, consequently, perfectly free. (Eugenie to her father)