Alexandre Dumas, The Count Of Monte Cristo

Quotes

• “Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just...”
• “I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates ar...”
• “Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed whe...”
• “For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime langua...”
• “When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only...”
• “Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,-Wait a...”
• “Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliv...”
• “To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.”
• “I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”
• “Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.”
• “I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
• “Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.”
• “Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.”