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

"...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..."

"Love is the most selfish of all the passions."

"What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die."

"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"

"I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it."

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

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

"Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught."

"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."

"...remember that what has once been done may be done again."

"The merit of all things lies in their difficulty."

"Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!"

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

"I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses."

"If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself."

"Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest."

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

"D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning."

"...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes."

"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."