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......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.
Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.
How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!
Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.
I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.
He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
It is necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.
Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.
True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.
God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.
It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.
You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart.
So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.
What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!
So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!
...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.
Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter, He believes in you.
If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.
If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.-The Count of Monte Cristo
Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".
When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.
Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.
God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.
The air in Provence is impregnated with the aroma of garlic, which makes it very healthful to breathe.
Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.
How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.
If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.
...does that not tell you that grief is like life and that there is always somethings unknown beyond it?
that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me
In this world, all--men, women, and kings--must live for the present. We can only live for the future for God
To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.
Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.
Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.
Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!
For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.
I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.
I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.
There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.
Infatuated, half through conceit, half through love of my art, I achieve the impossible working as no one else ever works.
We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.
You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
The wretched and miserable should turn to their Saviour first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted.
That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?
One always hurries towards happiness, Monsieur Danglars, because when one has suffered much, one is at pains to believe in it.