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The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.4) QUOTES

The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.4) QUOTES

1 " Pain anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed. We will not pretend to say that Heaven always apportions to a man's capability of endurance the anguish with which he afflicts him...Suffering is in proportion to the strength which has been accorded in other words the weak suffer more where the trial is the same than the strong. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)

2 " Joyful friends, mostly loyal, they hadn't abandoned their protector before the gathering storm; and despite the threatening sky, despite the shuddering earth, they remained, smiling, considerate, and as devoted to misfortune as they had been to prosperity. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)

3 " D'Artagnan had time to reflect that women - those gentle doves - treat one another more cruelly than bears and tigers. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)

4 " There are cancers so insidious in their nature that their very pulsation is invisible. Such cancers leave the ivory whiteness of the skin untouched, and marble not the firm, fair flesh, with their blue tints; the physician who bends over the patient's chest hears not, through he listens, the insatiable teeth of the disease grinding its onward progress through the muscles, as the blood flows freely on; the knife has never been able to destroy, and rarely even, temporarily, to discern the rage of these mortal scourges; their home is in the mind, which they corrupt; they fill the whole heart until it breaks. Such, madame, are the cancers, fatal to queens; are you, too, free from their scourge? "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)

5 " The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)

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

― Alexandre Dumas , The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)

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

― Alexandre Dumas , The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)

8 " In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)

9 " A man is held to be criminal,sometimes, by the great ones of the earth,not because he has committed a crime himself but because he knows of one which has been committed. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)

10 " A man is bound to make for himself in this world, that fortune which heaven had refused him at his birth. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)

11 " So like Athos." thought Aramis; "That which is actually good never alters. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)

12 " I have always heard it said that that is the rarest service, but the easiest to render. The remark struck me; I like to cite remarks that strike me. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)

13 " Forward! Still forward!" said he. "When it shall be time, God will tell me, as he has told the others. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)

14 " Man upon this earth must expect everything, and ought to face everything. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)

15 " I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)

16 " Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)

17 " 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. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)

18 " In presence of this ingenuous greatness of soul, Aramis felt himself little. It was the second time he had been compelled to bend before real superiority of heart, much more powerful than splendour of mind. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)

19 " What the deuce does the fellow mean by getting trap-doors made without first consulting you? Trap-doors! "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)

20 " But you are quite of opinion, are you not, that Heaven will avenge me, d'Artagnan?"
"And I know some persons on earth who will lend a helping hand," said the captain. "

― Alexandre Dumas , The Man in the Iron Mask (The D'Artagnan Romances, #3.4)