Take my word for it, you must change your way of living, or you will be ill.

Come, now, if you will trust in me, I will undertake to cure your ennui before a week is over." "And what is your remedy, Claudet ?" demanded Julien, with a forced smile.
"A very simple one: just let your books go, since they do not succeed in interesting you, and live the life that every one else leads.

The de Buxieres, your ancestors, followed the same plan, and had no fault to find with it.

You are in a wolf country--well, you must howl with the wolves!" "My dear fellow," replied Julien, shaking his head, "one can not remake one's self.

The wolves themselves would discover that I howled out of tune, and would send me back to my books." "Nonsense! try, at any rate.