My son, be worthy of your noble name, worthily borne by your ancestors for over five hundred years. Remember it’s by courage, and courage alone, that a nobleman makes his way nowadays. Don’t be afraid of opportunities, and seek out adventures. My son, all I have to give you is fifteen ecus, my horse, and the advice you’ve just heard. Make the most of these gifts, and have a long, happy life.

It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.

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