Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!
Life is no more than the repeated fulfilling of a permanent desire.
It is quite rare for God to provide a great man at the necessary moment to carry out some great deep, which is why when this unusual combination of circumstance does occur, history at once records the...
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.
God orders a man to do all he can to save his life.
God may seem sometimes to forget for a while, whilst his justice reposes, but there always comes a moment when he remembers.
D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee! -D'Artagnan
Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection.
We are entitled to violate history, provided that it results in handsome offspring.
Моите мечти нямат граници - аз винаги искам невъзможното.
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...
Return to the world still more brilliant because of your former sorrows.
I was delighted to see you again, and forgot for the moment that all happiness is fleeting.
Death is the only serious preoccupation in life.
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...
All for one and one for all.
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...
We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.
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.
One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.