Pain, anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed.

It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.

Never be afraid of opportunities, always be on the lookout for adventures.

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.

We shine like those fires and those stars; we sigh like those waves; we suffer like those great ships, which are worn out in ploughing the waves, in obeying the wind which urges them towards an end, as the breath of God blows us towards a port. Everything likes to live, Raoul; and everything is beautiful in living things.

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.

all human wisdom is contained in the words 'wait and hope!

we said we would be to each other as two voices, who shadows.

There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more.