“They were sailing under a clear sky in which God too was progressively putting on His lights, each another world.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“You are my son Dantés! You are the child of my captivity. My priestly office condemned me to celibacy: God sent you to me both to console the man who could not be a father and the prisoner who could not be free”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“MY GOD!' read Monte Cristo, 'LET ME KEEP MY MEMORY!”
“All human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“Very well,’ said Dantès. ‘Then I, too, shall remain.’ And, standing up and solemnly extending his hand above the old man’s head: ‘I swear by the blood of Christ that I shall not leave you until your death.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“The gloomy light, the silence and the awful poetry of night had no doubt combined with the fearful poetry of her conscience: the poisoner was afraid to see her work.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“Monte Cristo raised his eyes heavenwards but could not see the heavens: there was a veil of stone between him and the firmament.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“When I asked you if you were consoled, I was speaking to you as a man for whom the human heart holds no secrets. Well, then, Morrel, let us sound the depths of your heart. Is it still that ardent impatience of pain that makes the body leap like a lion bitten by a mosquito? Is it still that raging thirst that can be sated only in the tomb? Is it that ideal notion of regret that launches the living man out of life in pursuit of death? Or is it merely the prostration of exhausted courage, the ennui that stifles the ray of hope as it tries to shine? Is it the loss of memory, bringing an impotence of tears? Oh, my friend, if it is that, if you can no longer weep, if you think your numbed heart is dead, if you have no strength left except in God and no eyes except for heaven – then, my friend, let us put aside words that are too narrow to contain the meanings our soul would give them. Maximilien, you are consoled, pity yourself no longer.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“Haydée addressed her with a heartrending expression on her face: ‘How do you expect him to understand me, my sister? He is my master, and I his slave. He has the right to see nothing.’
The count shuddered at the tone of this voice, which awoke the deepest fibres of his being.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“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 of felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life. " Live, then, and be happy, beloved children of my heart, and never forget, that until the day God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, 'Wait and Hope.”
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 not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
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“Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.”
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“Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.”
Source: THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO: Classic French Literature
“No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“So much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have some bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.”
Source: The Count Of Monte Cristo (Unabridged)
“Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.”
“I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo: World Classics
“If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo”
“How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!”
“Wait and hope!”
“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
“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.”
“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
“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.”
“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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“And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude... I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.”
“Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.”
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
“Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.”
Source: Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)
“Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.”
Source: Delphi Works of Alexandre Dumas (Illustrated)
“Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“Why, in truth, sir," was Monte Cristo's reply, "man is but an ugly caterpillar for him who studies him through a solar microscope; but you said, I think, that I had nothing else to do. Now, really, let me ask, sir, have you? — do you believe you have anything to do? or to speak in plain terms, do you really think that what you do deserves being called anything?”
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“Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.”
Source: Count of Monte Cristo: {Complete & Illustrated}
“Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.”
