Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail...
Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire.
I maintain my pride in the face of men, but I abandon it before God, who drew me out of nothingness to make me what I am.
He who has a partner has a master.
He told himself that it was the enmity of man, and not the vengeance of heaven, that had thus plunged him into the deepest misery.
Edmond Dantes: I don’t believe in God.Abbe Faria: That doesn’t matter, He believes in you…
D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee! -D'Artagnan
But my real treasure is not that, my dear friend, which awaits me beneath the sombre rocks of Monte Cristo, it is your presence...it is the rays of intelligence you have elicited from my brain, the la...
Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection.
Order is the key to all problems.
One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.
I am a Count, Not a Saint.
God may seem sometimes to forget for a while, whilst his justice reposes, but there always comes a moment when he remembers.
All for one and one for all.
In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness...
Very well, young man, very well, Treville went on, I know those airs. I came to Paris with four ecus in my pocket, and I'd have fought with anybody who told me I was in no condition to buy the Louvre.
To be loved by a pure young girl, to be the first to reveal to her the strange mystery of love, is indeed a great happiness, but it is the simplest thing in the world. To take captive a heart which ha...
The plan is not wanting in grandeur; I see but one impediment.What is it?Impossibility.
Speak, Madame; speak, queen, said Buckingham. The softness of your voice covers the hardness of your words. You speak of sacrilege, but the sacrilege is in the separation of hearts that God has formed...