No, I slept as I always do when I am bored and have not the courage to amuse myself, or when I am hungry and have not the desire to eat.--The Count of Monte Cristo

There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.

In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —

Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.

To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like all persons of real genius, her ladyship well knew what accorded with her nature and her means. Poverty disgusted her -subjection deprived her of two-thirds of her greatness. Her ladyship was only a queen amongst queens: the enjoyment of satisfied pride was essential to her sway. To command beings of an inferior nature, was, to her, rather a humiliation than a pleasure.