The Count of Monte Cristo

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.'—Your friend, "Edmond Dantes, Count of Monte Cristo."

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper, than of a sword or pistol."

"And how did this misfortune occur?" inquired the latter, resuming the interrupted conversation.

"Yes, yes, my boy, so we will—so we will," replied the old man; "but how shall we be happy?

'He who has a partner has a master.'

Chi ha compagno ha padrone

In politics, my dear fellow, you know, as well as I do, there are no men, but ideas—no feelings, but interests; in politics we do not kill a man, we only remove an obstacle, that is all.

Philosophy cannot be taught; it is the application of the sciences to truth

to learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the other.

Ah, lips that say one thing, while the heart thinks another