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‘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.’
‘No, my dear Caderousse,’ Edmond replied. ‘I am not proud, but I am happy – and happiness, I believe, is even more dazzling than pride.’
I have always been more afraid of a pen, a bottle of ink and a sheet of paper than of a sword or a pistol.’
‘the Law is the Law, and I am happy to put myself in her hands.’
‘You know, Monsieur, that one can be mild in one’s private life, honest in one’s business dealings and skilled in one’s work, yet at the same time, politically speaking, be guilty of great crimes.
one must beware of first impulses, even when they were correct,
his lack of confidence in men deprived him of any confidence in events.
There are things that seem so impossible that one instinctively avoids them and doesn’t even consider attempting them.
It is not the laws of society that condemn murder, but the laws of nature.’
God has given mankind enough intelligence to compensate for the inadequacies of his senses.
Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory, the second philosophy.’
The sea is the graveyard of the Château d’If.
