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.

Nothing succeeds like success.

"I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride."

"All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope"

"Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures."

"Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy."

"Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart."

"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes."

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

"All human wisdom is contained in these two words--"Wait and Hope."

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

"As a general rule...people ask for advice only in order not to follow it; or if they do follow it, in order to have someone to blame for giving it."

"The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates."

"For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence."

"When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever."

"Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy"

"All generalizations are dangerous, even this one."

"There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever."

"I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol."

"We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune."

"Women are never so strong as after their defeat."

"Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another,"

"Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it."

"One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never."

"Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself"."

"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."

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

"For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God."

"You are very amiable, no doubt, but you would be charming if you would only depart."

"Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it."

"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."