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...

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failures certain by himself being the first person to...

Uncertainty is worse than all

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.

The voice of human nature is nothing but one prolonged cry.

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...

You instinctively display the greatest virtue, or rather the chief defect, of us eccentric Parisians- that is, you assume the vices you have not, and conceal the virtues you possess.

The truth is,’ replied Dantes, ‘that I am too happy for noisy mirth; …joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.

Let me struggle like a woman- my strength lies in my weakness. – Milady

Dantes had entered the Chateau d’If with the round, open, smiling face of a young and happy man, with whom the earlypaths of life have been smooth. and who anticipates a future corresponding with his...

All for one and one for all.

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.

Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.

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.

Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait and hope.

But these first needs of the heart are so imperious, these outpourings of amorous melancholy in young people are at once so sweet and so bitter, that they have often all the real marks of...

Todo mal tienes dos remedios; el tiempo y el silencio.

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.

I cannot think that man is meant to find happiness so easily! Happiness is like one of those palaces on an enchanted island, its gates guarded by dragons. One must fight to gain it; and,...

So rapid is the flight of dreams upon the wings of imagination.

l’action et l’amour

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

Sometimes salvation is found in agony.

He was a fine, tall, slim young fellow, with black eyes, and hair as dark as the raven’s wing; and his whole appearance bespoke that calmness and resolution peculiar to men accustomed from their cradle...

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

To save a man and thereby to spare a father’s agony and a mother’s feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

In all well-organised brains, the predominating idea—and there always is one—is sure to be the last thought before sleeping, and the first upon waking in the morning. Andrea had scarcely opened his eyes when his...

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.

That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?

There are some catastrophes that a poor writer’s pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of his readers with a bald statement of the facts.

Death is the only serious preoccupation in life.

True love always makes a man better, no matter what woman inspires it.

Friendship throws out deep roots in honest hearts, D’Artagnan. Believe me, it is only the evil-minded who deny friendship; they cannot understand it.

…M. Danglars, who had listened to all this preamble with imperturbable coolness, but without understanding a word, engaged as he was, like every man burdened with thoughts of the past, in seeking the thread of...

MY GOD!’ read Monte Cristo, ‘LET ME KEEP MY MEMORY!

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...

Oh, mankind, race of crocodiles! How well I recognize you down there, and how worthy you are of yourselves!

And now,’ said the unknown, ‘farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven’s substitute to recompense the good – now the god of vengeance yields...

I do as I please, Monsieur Beauchamp, and believe me, what I do is always well done.

Look, look,’ cried the count, seizing the young man’s hands – “look, for on my soul it is curious. Here is a man who had resigned himself to his fate, who was going to the...

Un homme de cinquante ans ne tient pas longtemps rancune à une femme de vingt-trois.

At Rome thing can or cannot be done when you are told anything cannot be done, there is an end of it.””It is much more convenient at Paris; when anything cannot be done you pay...

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

You see that God deems it right to take from me any claim to merit for what you call my devotion to you. I have promised to remain forever with you, and now I could...

You are young,” replied Athos, “and your bitter memories have time to change into sweet ones.

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...

Il y a les sachants et les savants: c’est la mémoire qui fait les uns, c’est la philosophie qui fait les autres. La philosophie ne s’apprend pas; la philosophie est la réunion des sciences acquises...