We are never quits towards those who have done us a favour,' said Dantès. 'Even when one ceases to owe them money, one owes them gratitude.
Pain, anguish and suffering in human life are always in proportion to the strength with which a man is endowed.
Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.
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.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.
You are my son Dantés! You are the child of my captivity. My priestly office condemned me to celibacy: God sent you to me both to console the man who could not be a father and the prisoner who could not be free
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.
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.
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.
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.
There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more.
Tình yêu thuần khiết và nghi ngờ không thể sống cùng nhau: tại cánh cửa nơi nghi ngờ bước vào, tình yêu rời khỏi.
Tình yêu thực sự luôn luôn làm người đàn ông trở nên tốt đẹp hơn, dù nó được người phụ nữ nào mang đến.
