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‘Heavens, it’s simple enough. You people, who hold power, have only what can be bought for money; we, who are waiting to gain power, have what is given out of devotion.’
‘The better is the enemy of the good.’
It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.’
‘So it is true that every one of our actions leaves some trace on our past, either dark or bright.
‘don’t give me any of those trite arguments that prevent weak minds from building a solid future for themselves.
Ideas never die, Sire, and, though they may slumber for a time, they wake up stronger than when they fell asleep.”
‘It appears that for him men are like ideas,’
The fortunes of war, my dear Viscount, and the whims of fate.’
Moral wounds have the peculiarity that they are invisible, but do not close: always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain tender and open in the heart.
Truly generous men are always ready to feel compassion when their enemy’s misfortune exceeds the bounds of their hatred.
The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is overcast, and that is why the sky seems stormy to you.’
Indeed, as one goes forward, so the past, like the landscape through which one is walking, is gradually effaced.
Hide the diamonds, dull the gold, dampen the rays. Let the rich man rediscover the poor one, the free man the prisoner, and the resurrected man the corpse.’
Little by little, just as the springs that dry up in the summer heat are moistened bit by bit when the autumn clouds gather and begin to well up, drop by drop, so the Count of Monte Cristo also felt rising in his breast the old overflowing gall that had once filled the heart of Edmond Dantès.
all human wisdom is contained in these two words: ‘wait’ and ‘hope’! Your friend EDMOND DANTÈS Count of Monte Cristo.
