“Women are never so strong as after their defeat.”
Source: Queen Margot, or Marguerite de Valois
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Chapter 117 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_117
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)
Context: Tell the angel who will watch over your future destiny, Morrel, to pray sometimes for a man who, like Satan, thought himself, for an instant, equal to God; but who now acknowledges, with Christian humility, that God alone possesses supreme power and infinite wisdom... There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness. We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel, that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
“It's necessary to have wished for death in order to know how good it is to live.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
Source: The Three Musketeers
“On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“All human wisdom is contained in these words: Wait and hope!”
Also: 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".
Chapter 117 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_117
Variant: All human wisdom is contained in these two words - Wait and Hope
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)
“How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“The difference between treason and patriotism is only a matter of dates.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
“For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.”
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo
Vingt ans après (Twenty Years After) (1845)
Context: Learn ever to separate the king and the principle of royalty. The king is but man; royalty is the spirit of God. When you are in doubt as to which you should serve, forsake the material appearance for the invisible principle, for this is everything.
“Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.”
Chapter 17 http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Count_of_Monte_Cristo/Chapter_17
The Count of Monte Cristo (1845–1846)
Context: "You must teach me a small part of what you know," said Dantes, "if only to prevent your growing weary of me. I can well believe] that so learned a person as yourself would prefer absolute [[solitude to being tormented with the company of one as ignorant and uninformed as myself. If you will only agree to my request, I promise you never to mention another word about escaping." The abbe smiled. "Alas, my boy," said he, "human knowledge is confined within very narrow limits; and when I have taught you mathematics, physics, history, and the three or four modern languages with which I am acquainted, you will know as much as I do myself. Now, it will scarcely require two years for me to communicate to you the stock of learning I possess."
"Two years!" exclaimed Dantes; "do you really believe I can acquire all these things in so short a time?"
"Not their application, certainly, but their principles you may; to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other."
Source: The Count of Monte Cristo