"I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death."

"True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring."

"A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself."

"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."

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

"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."

"For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart."

"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."

"Haste is a poor counselor"

"Be kind, aim for my heart."

"I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me."

"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 be convinced of it."

"...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all."

"Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives."

"And now gentlemen, all for one, one for all - that is our motto, is it not?"

"And now gentlemen, all for one, one for all - that is our motto, is it not?"

"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."

"In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents."

"But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked. "Because, my friend, I judge it by the past."

"Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety."

"Order is the key to all problems."

"The wretched and the miserable should turn to their Savior first, yet they do not hope in Him until all other hope is exhausted."

"Pain, thou art not an evil"

"I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest."

"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."

"On what slender threads do life and fortune hang."

"Mastery of language affords one remarkable opportunities."

"Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit."

"I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away."

"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."

"It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!"

"Everyone knows that God protects drunkards and lovers."

"I am a Count, Not a Saint."

"Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen."

"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."

"Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum."

"Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world."

"It is only the dead who do not return."

"He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness."

"If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness."

"If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful."

"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."

"God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge."

"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."

"......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned."

"It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree."

"We frequently pass so near to happiness without seeing, without regarding it, or if we do see and regard it, yet without recognizing it."

"I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.' 'Do you mean to say that if I left you---' 'I'd die, yes.' 'Then you love me?"

"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"

"God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge."