Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!
Pain, thou art not an evil
I am a Count, Not a Saint.
Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.
There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst...
The king! I thought he was philosopher enough to allow that there was no murder in politics. In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas - no feelings, but inte...
Order is the key to all problems.
Look, look,' cried the count, seizing the young man's hands - look, for on my soul it is curious. Here is a man who had resigned himself to his fate, who was going to the scaffold to die - like a cowa...
Business? It's quite simple. It's other people's money.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of...
My dear fellow Said Albert, turning to Franz here is an admirable adventure; we will fill our carriage with pistols, blunderbusses, and double-barreled shotguns. Luigi Vampa comes to take us, and we...
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
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Misfortune does not help us to believe.
I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.
Dantes had entered the Chateau d’If with the round, open, smiling face of a young and happy man, with whom the earlypaths of life have been smooth. and who anticipates a future corresponding with his...
So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it and sometimes three.
Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others…
Love is the most selfish of all the passions.