You Who Are In Power Have Only

So, Preferring Death To Capture, I Accomplished The Most Astonishing Deeds, And Which, More Then Once, Showed Me That The Too Great Care We Take Of Our Bodies Is The Only Obstacle To The Sucess Of Those Projects Which Require Rapid Decision, And Vigorous And Determined Execution. In Reality, When You Have Once Devoted Your Life To Your Enterprises, You Are No Longer The Equal Of Other Men, Or, Rather, Other Men Are No Longer Your Equals, And Whosoever Has Taken This Resolution, Feels His Strength And Resources Doubled.

D’artagnan: Why Is Athos Sitting By Himself? Aramis: He Takes His Drinking Very Seriously. Not To Worry, He’ll Be His Usual Charming Self By Morning.

Are There Not Some Places Where We Seem To Breathe Sadness? — Why, We Cannot Tell. It Is A Chain Of Recollections — An Idea Which Carries You Back To Other Times, To Other Places — Which, Very Likely, Have No Connection With The Present Time And Place.

...joy Takes A Strange Effect At Times, It Seems To Oppress Us Almost The Same As Sorrow.

Be Happy, Noble Heart, Be Blessed For All The Good Thou Hast Done And Wilt Do Hereafter, And Let My Gratitude Remain In Obscurity Like Your Good Deeds.