You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.

D'Artagnan, my friend, thou art brave, thou art prudent, thou hast excellent qualities, but- women will destroy thee!" -D'Artagnan

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

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.

Everyone knows that drunkards and lovers have a protecting diety.

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.