Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.

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.

Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!

If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.

I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —