“My son, be worthy of your noble name, worthily borne by your ancestors for over five hundred years. Remember it’s by courage, and courage alone, that a nobleman makes his way nowadays. Don’t be afraid of opportunities, and seek out adventures. My son, all I have to give you is fifteen ecus, my horse, and the advice you’ve just heard. Make the most of these gifts, and have a long, happy life.”
“For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society which does not protect me -- indeed, I might add, which generally takes no heed of me except to do me harm -- and, since I hold them low in my esteem and remain neutral towards them, I believe that society and my neighbor are in my debt.”
“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.”
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“It is the way of weakened minds to see everything through a black cloud. The soul forms its own horizons; your soul is darkened, and consequently the sky of the future appears stormy and unpromising”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo Volume 6âle Comte de Monte-Cristo Tome 6: English-French Parallel Text Edition in Six Volumes
“It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo Volume 6âle Comte de Monte-Cristo Tome 6: English-French Parallel Text Edition in Six Volumes
“Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.”
Source: The Three Musketeers: World Classics
“So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!”
“The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.”
“Order is the key to all problems.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo: Abridged Edition
“......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.”
“I am a count, not a saint.”
“A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. 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.”
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“There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.”
Source: The Man in the Iron Mask
“In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God”
Source: Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)
“We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.”
“Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengeance is mine." [...] He believes in you.”
“that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me”
“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.”
“Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“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 planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.”
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“To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked. "Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.”
“Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo: A Story of Hope, Justice, Vengeance, Mercy, Forgiveness and Death (Beloved Books Edition)
“You who weep for pleasures fled, While dragging on a life of care, All your woes will melt in air, If to god your tears are shed, You who Weap!”
“It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.”
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“One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.”
“Pain, thou art not an evil”
Source: Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)
“Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.”
Source: The Three Musketeers
“In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.”
“I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.”
Source: The Three Musketeers
“For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo Volume 3âle Comte de Monte-Cristo Tome 3: English-French Parallel Text Edition in Six Volumes
“What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.”
“...remember that what has once been done may be done again.”
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“...for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal breast, and that is where a dearly-beloved child is concerned.”
Source: The Count of Monte-Cristo
“Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms”
“The hungry men were seen, followed by their valets, roaming the quais and guards' quarters; gleaning from their outside friends all the dinners they could find; for, according to Aramis, in prosperity one should sow meals right and left, in order to harvest some in adversity.”
Source: The Three Musketeers: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
“(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.”
Source: The Count Of Monte Cristo (Illustrated Edition of the Adventure Classic): Historical Thriller from the renowned French writer, known for The Three Musketeers, The Black Tulip, Twenty Years After, La Reine Margot and The Man in the Iron Mask
“I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.”
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“I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, ‘Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?’ I replied, ‘Listen, I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.”
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“Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas — no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.”
Source: Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)
“Dantes passed through all the stages of torture natural to prisoners in suspense. He was sustained at first by that pride of conscious innocence which is the sequence to hope; then he began to doubt his own innocence, which justified in some measure the governor's belief in his mental alienation; and then, relaxing his sentiment of pride, he addressed his supplications, not to God, but to man. God is always the last resource. Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.”
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“God is always the last resource.”
Source: The Count Of Monte Cristo (Illustrated Edition of the Adventure Classic): Historical Thriller from the renowned French writer, known for The Three Musketeers, The Black Tulip, Twenty Years After, La Reine Margot and The Man in the Iron Mask
“in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!”
Source: The Count Of Monte Cristo (Illustrated Edition of the Adventure Classic): Historical Thriller from the renowned French writer, known for The Three Musketeers, The Black Tulip, Twenty Years After, La Reine Margot and The Man in the Iron Mask
