And now gentlemen, all for one, one for all - that is our motto, is it not?
And how did this misfortune occur? inquired the latter, resuming the interrupted conversation.
All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope
Abbe Faria: Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, Vengeance is mine.Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God.Abbe Faria: It doesn't matter. H...
The overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; it needs trouble and difficulty and danger to hollow out various mysterious and hidden mines of h...
You posses a quality which can never belong to Mademoiselle Danglars. It is that indefinable charm which is to a woman what perfume is to the flower and flavor to the fruit, for beauty of either is no...
We are never quits with those who oblige us, was Dantes' reply; for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope.
Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.
There is neither happiness nor unhappiness in this world; there is only the comparison of one state with another. Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. It is n...
Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, Do your worst, for I will do mine! and you will be remembered forever...
It is a bad habit to shout it from the rooftops when one challenges a person. Not everyone benefits from attracting attention.
Is the world filled with tigers and crocodiles? Yes; and remember that two-legged tigers and crocodiles are more dangerous than the others. Never
In general, people only ask for advice that they may not follow it; or, if they should follow it, that they may have somebody to blame for having given it.
I am selfish — you have already said so— and as a selfish man I think not of what others would do in my situation, but of what I intend doing myself.Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo (Kindle...
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
Do you think that, if I did, I would lead you to the answer inch by inch, like a dramatist or a novelist?
All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.
Does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?
The friends we have lost do not repose under the ground...they are buried deep in our hearts. It has been thus ordained that they may always accompany us...