Цитаты из книги автора Alexander Dumas 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."

The edifice which misfortune has destroyed, providence may build up again

Thanks, Cocles; you are the pearl of cashiers."
Cocles went away perfectly happy, for this eulogium of M. Morrel, himself the pearl of the honest men of Marseilles, flattered him more than a present of fifty crowns

No, I want to live; I shall struggle to the very last; I will yet win back the happiness of which I have been deprived

Alone—he was alone again—again condemned to silence—again face to face with nothingness! Alone

Compression is needed to explode gunpowder

misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect

beside himself with

There is a sort of consolation at the contemplation of the yawning abyss, at the bottom of which lie darkness and obscurity

remove an obstacle, that is