"It is neccessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live."

"All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope."

"How singular," murmured Maximillian; "your father hates me, while your grandfather, on the contrary -- What strange feelings are aroused by politics."

"She is not my mistress,' replied the young sailor gravely, 'she is my betrothed.''Sometimes one and the same thing,' said Morrel, with a smile.'Not with us, sir,' replied Dantes."

"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."

"After which, satisfied with the way he had conducted himself at Meung, free of remorse for the past, confident in the present, and full of hope for the future, he went to bed and slept the sleep of the just."

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

"All for one and one for all."

"Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money."

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

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

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

"There are some situations which men understand by instinct, by which reason is powerless to explain; in such cases the greatest poet is he who gives utterance to the most natural and vehement outburst of sorrow. Those who hear the bitter cry are as much impressed as if they listened to an entire poem, and when th sufferer is sincere they are right in regarding his outburst as sublime."

"It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman."

"I never swear, Monseigneur. I say Yes or No, and as I am a gentleman, I keep my word."

"How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure."

"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 double and it is done directly."

"This sometimes happened: from time to time, DantA s, driven out of solitude into the world, felt an imperative need for solitude. And what solitude is more vast and more poetic than that of a ship sailing alone on the sea, in the darkness of night and the silence of infinity, under the eye of the Lord?"

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

"Man does not steal, he conquers."

"Is not a day divided into twenty-four hours, each hour into sixty minutes, and every minute sub-divided into sixty seconds? Now in 86,400 seconds many things can be done."

"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."

"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."

"He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have 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 when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, - 'Wait and hope.' " Your friend, Edmond Dantes, Count of Monte Cristo. The eyes of both were fixed on the spot indicated by the sailor, and on the blue-line separating the sky from the Mediterranean Sea, they perceived a large white sail."

"Joyful friends, mostly loyal, they hadn't abandoned their protector before the gathering storm; and despite the threatening sky, despite the shuddering earth, they remained, smiling, considerate, and as devoted to misfortune as they had been to prosperity."

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

"Athos was delighted to find he was going to fight an Englishman. We might say that was his dream."

"There is something so awe-inspiring in great afflictions that even in the worst times the first emotion of a crowd has generally been to sympathise with the sufferer in a great catastrophe."

"I do what I please, M. Beauchamp, and it is always well done."

"Human inventions march from thecomplex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection."

"Unfortunately in this world of ours, each person views things through a certain medium, which prevents his seeing them in the same light as others."

"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."

"Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world."

"Utterly sure of himself, convinced of his power, certain that the laws that governed other men couldn't touch him, he made straight for any goal he set himself, however rarified and dazzling, even if it were folly for anyone else to even consider 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."

"However anxious one is to reach one's goal, one can excuse delays on the route when these are caused by ovations."

"Had she stabbed me with a knife, she could not have hurt me more."

"The King! I thought him enough of a philosopher to realize that there is no such thing as murder in politics. You know as well as I do, my dear boy, that in politics there are no people, only ideas; no feelings, only interests. In politics, you don't kill a man, you remove an obstacle, that's all."

"Nothing succeeds like success."

"There are words which close a conversation as with an iron door."

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

"Besides, we feel always a sort of mental superiority over those whose lives we know better than they suppose."

"Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope."

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

"Happy! who can answer for that? Happiness or unhappiness is the secret known but to oneself."

"Ah, Caderousse,' said Andrea, 'how covetous you are! Two months ago you were dying with hunger.''The appetite grows by what it feeds on,' said Caderousse."

"My dear fellow " Said Albert, turning to Franz " here is an admirable adventure; we will fill our carriage with pistols, blunderbusses, and double-barreled shotguns. Luigi Vampa comes to take us, and we take him - we bring him back to Rome , and present him to him holiness the Pope, who asks how he can repay so great a service; Then we merely ask for a cariage and a pair of horses, and we will see the Carnival in the carriage , and doubtless the Roman people will crown us at the capitol , and proclaim us, like Curtius and the veiled Horatius, the preservers of there country." Whilst Albert proposed this scheme, signor Pastrini's face assumed an expression impossible to describe."

"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 failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it."

"Oh, Mercedes, I have spoken your name with sighs of melancholy, with groans of pain and with the croak of despair. I have spoken it frozen with cold, huddled on the straw of my dungeon. I have spoken it raging with heat and rolling around on the stone floor of my prison. Mercedes, I must have my revenge, because for fourteen years I suffered, fourteen years I wept and cursed. Now, I say to you, Mercedes, I must have my revenge!"

"Women sometimes allow you to be unfaithful to their love, they never allow you to wound their self-esteem."