Alexandre Dumas, The Three Musketeers
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"Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any goal he set himself, however rarified and dazzling, even if it were folly for anyone else to even consider it."
"After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full of hope for the future, he went to bed and slept the sleep of the just."
"Never be afraid of opportunities, always be on the lookout for adventures."
"I began a poem in lines of one syllable. It's rather difficult, but the merit of all things lies in their difficulty. The subject matter is gallant. I'll read you the first canto; it's four hundred verses long and takes one minute."
"Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance."
"There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret."
"Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives."
"We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you."
"Let me struggle like a woman- my strength lies in my weakness. - Milady"
"Athos was delighted to find he was going to fight an Englishman. We might say that was his dream."
"Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures."
"You are young," replied Athos, "and your bitter memories have time to change into sweet ones."
"Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose."
"Very well, young man, very well," Treville went on, "I know those airs. I came to Paris with four ecus in my pocket, and I'd have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre."
"The dream of poor Bazin had always been to serve a man of the cloth."
"All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall."