“Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a...”
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<b>Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read</i></b><br><br>A popular bestseller since its publication in 1844, <i>The Count of Monte Cristo</i> is one of the great page-turning thrillers of all time. Set against the tumultuous years of the post-Napoleonic era, Alexandre Dumas’s grand historical romance recounts the swashbuckling adventures of Edmond Dantès, a dashing young sailor falsely accused of treason. The story of his long imprisonment, dramatic escape, and carefully wrought revenge offers up a vision of France that has become immortal. As Robert Louis Stevenson declared, “I do not believe there is another volume extant where you can breathe the same unmingled atmosphere of romance.”
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“Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a...”
“Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth.”
“Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.”
“So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the suc...”
“He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.”
“I almost regret having helped you in your researches & having told you what I did”
“That is a dream also; only he has remained asleep, while you have awakened; and who knows which of you is the most fortunate?”
“Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.”
“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.”
“Perhaps what I am about to say will appear strange to you gentlemen, socialists, progressives, humanitarians as you are, but I never worry about my neighbor, I never try to protect society w...”
“God, who might have directed the assassin's dagger so as to end your career in a moment, has given you this quarter of an hour for repentance. Reflect, then, wretched man, and repent.”
“All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope”
“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
“Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.”
“I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.”
“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.”
“But can I not learn philosophy as well as other things?” “My son, philosophy, as I understand it, is reducible to no rules by which it can be learned; it is the amalgamation of all the scien...”
“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.”