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

So heavy is the chain of wedlock that it needs two to carry it, and sometimes three.

There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.

Joy to hearts which have suffered long is like the dew on the ground after a long drought; both the heart and the ground absorb that beneficent moisture falling on them, and nothing is outwardly apparant.

Edmond Dantes: I don't believe in God. Abbe Faria: That doesn't matter, He believes in you.

I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.

Nothing makes time pass or shortens the way like a thought that absorbs in itself all the faculties of the one who is thinking. External existence is then like a sleep of which this thought is the dream. Under its influence, time has no more measure, space has no more distance.