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...but my friends call me Edmund Dantes.

Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.

So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution. In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled.

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.

What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.

D’Artagnan: Why is Athos sitting by himself? Aramis: He takes his drinking very seriously. Not to worry, he’ll be his usual charming self by morning.

Porthos: He thinks he can challenge the mighty Porthos with a sword... D'Artagnan: The mighty who? Porthos: Don't tell me you've never heard of me. D'Artagnan: The world's biggest windbag? Porthos: Little pimple... meet me behind the Luxembourg at 1 o'clock and bring a long wooden box. D'Artagnan: Bring your own... Porthos: [laughs]

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.

Business? It's quite simple; it's other people's money.

All for one, one for all, that is our device.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.